Poetics and Justice in America, Japan, and Taiwan: Configuring Change and Entitlement

Poetics and Justice in America, Japan, and Taiwan: Configuring Change and Entitlement shows how entitlements are implicated in all areas of life—human and nonhuman—that poetry reaches. Through a creative adaptation of Badiou’s philosophical framing, this book argues that poetry matters as a form of media particularly suited to integrating diverse elds of knowledge and attention in newspapers, Tweets, and performance as well as volumes of poetry. Recasting intertextuality as more rela- tional than referential, Dean Anthony Brink argues for the importance of poetry in realizing how social change and ecological justice are bound up in our orientations of af liation. Poets and performance artists featured include Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, Tawara Machi, Rodrigo Toscano, Hung Hung, Sun Ra, and John Cage.