Local History - Erica Hunt

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Résumé :
Poetry. LOCAL HISTORY, Erica Hunt's first book, is the product of over a decade of intensive engagement with poetry by a writer published in some of the most innovative anthologies of the time: In the American Tree, boundary 2, Poetics Journal, The Politics of Poetic Form, and Talking Poetics from the Naropa Institute. Hunt's resonant and elegant reworking of prose as a form of poetry reflects her social commitment to an ethical writing practice that exuberantly interrogates its own expressive potentialities. A new poet demands new readers. Hunt's poetry, it seems to me, demands a new public - Charles Bernstein....

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Erica Hunt is a poet, essayist, and author of Veronica: a suite in parts, Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing, Time Slips Right Before your Eyes, LOCAL HISTORY (Roof Books), Arcade, Piece Logic, and A Day and Its Approximates. Her poems and non-fiction have appeared in Bomb, boundry 2, The Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetics Journal, Tripwire, FENCE, Hambone, In the American Tree, among other publications.