Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era

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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface: "Where Will All That Beauty Go?": A Tribute to Poet-Scholar Tiffany Austin
Introduction to Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era
PART I Elegiac Reconfigurations
	Tony Medina, "Senryu for Trayvon Martin" and "From the Crushed Voice Box of Freddie Gray"
	Angela Jackson-Brown, "I Must Not Breathe"
	Anne Lovering Rounds, "American Diptych"
	Jerry Wemple, "Nickel Rides: For Freddie Gray"
	1 Denormativizing Elegy: Historical and Transnational Journeying in the Black Lives Matter Poetics of Patricia Smith, Aja Monet, and Shane McCrae
	2 The Didactic and Elegiac Modes of Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric
	3 Lucille Clifton's and Claudia Rankine's Elegiac Poetics of Nature
	4 "In Terrible Fruitfulness": Arthur Jafa's Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death and the Not-Lost Southern Accent
		Emily Jo Scalzo, "After Charleston"
		Paula Bohince, "The Flint River"
		Lisa Norris, "Big-Beaked White Birds"
		Steffan Triplett, "Slumber Party"
		Sequoia Maner, "upon reading the autopsy of Sandra Bland" and "Black Boy Contrapuntal: For Trayvon Martin"
PART II Hauntings and Reckonings
	Danielle Legros Georges, "As Falling Star" and "Poem of History"
	darlene anita scott, "A Series of Survivals"
	Sean Murphy; "Bud Powell's Brain"
	Sarah Giragosian, "Nina"
	5 Black Lives Matter and Legal Reconstructions of Elegiac Forms
	6 Anatomizing the Body, Diagnosing the Country: Reading the Elegies of Patricia Smith
	7 "A Diagnosis Is an Ending": Spectacle and Vision in Bettina Judd's Patient
		Tiffany Austin, "Peaches"
		Charles Braxton, "Strays in the Hood"
		Lauren K. Alleyne, "Poetry Workshop after the Verdict: For Trayvon" and "Elegy: For Tamir"
PART III Elegists as Activists
	Jacqueline Johnson, "Soul Memory (for Renisha McBride)"
	Chris Campanioni, "#IWokeUpLikeThis or: The Latest in Space-Age #PostInternet Pajamas" and "rendition"
	Cameron Barnett, "Uniform; or things I would paint if I were a painter"
	8 "A Cause Divinely Spun": The Poet in an Age of Social Unrest
	9 Edwidge Danticat's Elegiac Project: A Transnational Historiography of U.S. Imperialist State Violence
	10 Loving You Is Complicated: Empire of Language #4
	11 An Interview with Amanda Johnston, Cofounder of Black Poets Speak Out
		Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, "No Indictment (On the Death of Sandra Bland)"
		Nicholas Rianard Goodly, "Skin Tones"
		Jason Harris, "Appraisal (Elegy for As of a Now)"
		Tiffany Austin, "Dark Milk: After Basquiat"
Prompts for Further Discussion
Appendix for Further Reading
Contributors
Index