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Univ. of Iowa Press

Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — December 2011
Arrangement is by title.

Renegade poetics; black aesthetics and formal innovation in African American poetry.

Shockley, Evie. (Contemporary North American poetry series)
Univ. of Iowa Press, ©2011    260 p.    $39.95    PS310
978-1-60938-058-8

Shockley is a poet and English professor at Rutgers U., and this book had its genesis not in a doctoral dissertation but in a conference presentation. The study comprises six chapters that include close studies of Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Annida," Sonia Sanchez's Does Your House Have Lions? Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge, Anne Spencer's "Raceless" verse, Ed Roberson's poetics, and Will Alexander and surrealism. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

The trouble with Sauling around; conversion in ethnic American autobiography, 1965-2002.

Walker, Madeline Ruth.
Univ. of Iowa Press, ©2011    201 p.    $35.00    PS366
978-1-60938-063-2

Writing scholar Walker (nursing, U. of Victoria, British Columbia) explores how religious conversion in ethnic American autobiography routinely enlists social, cultural, and racial/ethnic identity-making forces. Her topics include conversion and the intractable Saul in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Oscar Zeta Acosta's autofictions, serial conversion and Pauling around in Amiri Baraka's The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones, Richard Rodriguez and the browning of Catholicism, and unlinking religious belief and identity. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)