BIBFRAME Work

Title

Another throat

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Twenty-first-century Black US persona poetry and the archive

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Sharp, Ryan (author )

Subject

• African Americans--Archives--History (LCSH)
• Persona (Literature) (LCSH)
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies (BISACSH)
• American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism (LCSH)
• POETRY / American / African American & Black (BISACSH)
• American poetry--21st century--History and criticism (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 811/.609896073 (Assigner: dlc)
• POE005050
• LCC: PS153.B53 S47 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• SOC001000

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"The early twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in Black US poets employing the mask of persona, often including and interrogating archival materials as they do so. While some have observed this rise and noted its connection to historical figures, Ryan Sharp explores it more deeply, as a project-based historical and poetic practice. Sharp examines its sustained use of historical persona and capacity for conjuring Black speakers as a countermeasure against the archival silencing and misrepresentation of Black voices and histories - a tactic he theorizes as poetic fabulation - through the poetry of Elizabeth Alexander, Cornelius Eady, Adrian Matejka, Patricia Smith, Natasha Trethewey, and Frank X Walker. This poetic practice is not only about looking back but about critically and creatively (re)imagining the past to expand the possibilities for Black presents and futures. Through his argument, Sharp demonstrates how the unique aesthetic and rhetorical license afforded to poetry, along with the interiority of persona, empowers such historically minded projects to be concurrently invested in the curation of Black narratives and identities"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Signifyin' on the archive -- Elizabeth Alexander's American Sublime and the folk hero as persona -- Adrian Matejka's The Big Smoke and the shadow of the archive -- Frank X Walker's Buffalo Dance and the talking book -- Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard and persona as palimpsest -- Cornelius Eady's Brutal Imagination and the plausible villain/victim -- Patricia Smith's Blood Dazzler and reading (through) the spectacle -- Coda: Poetic fabulation.

Authorized Access Point

Sharp, Ryan. Another throat

Geographic Coverage

• United States

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:22:14.044195+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23789444

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• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
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