Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry humor they both radically changed their

they both radically changed their diets and began seeking out recipes featuring healthy

and others

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

Margaret Busby

as well as for its imaginative transgressions against them

Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry humor they both radically changed theirBy 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