Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition
By Hollis Robbins (NHC Fellow, 2017–18) Forms of Contention argues for the centrality of sonnet writing to African American poetry, focusing on significant sonnets, key anthologies, and critical debates about poetic form to show that the influence of black sonnet writers on each other challenges long-standing claims that sonnet writing is primarily a matter of European … Continued