How does the influx of identities, voices, and life experiences that are now expressed in mainstream American letters potentially create and communicate new Political vision(s) -- vision that may sound or appear different from Ginsberg\'s poetic/Political tour de force, but is no less necessary, compelling, challenging, or iconoclastic? What do we even mean when we talk about the weight of a Political work? How is that weight both carried and expressed by poetry today? Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity showcases the substantial amount of Political writing that is being done today.--Publisher..
How does the influx of identities, voices, and life experiences that are now expressed in mainstream American letters potentially create and communicate new Political vision(s) -- vision that may sound or appear different from Ginsberg\'s poetic/Political tour de force, but is no less necessary, compelling, challenging, or iconoclastic? What do we even mean when we talk about the weight of a Political work? How is that weight both carried and expressed by poetry today? Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity showcases the substantial amount of Political writing that is being done today.--Publisher.