Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry humor Cálmate- meaning Calm Down

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After reading this book

now in its twenty fifth year

from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs

Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry humor Cálmate- meaning Calm DownBy Michael Leong Why have so many contemporary poets turned to source material, from newspapers to governmental records, as inspiration for their poetry? How can citational poems offer a means of social engagement? Contested Records analyzes how some of the most well known twenty first century North American poets work with fraught documents. Whether its the legal paperwork detailing the murder of 132 African captives, state transcriptions of the last