Still, here is my attempt to continue the conversation: why is it that in naming poets that take on the State, Giménez Smith cites two men of color in the contemporary scene, but the past is utterly white?
Granted, this is from a blog, meaning, like this post, it is meant to be quick and disposable, a mere attempt at starting a conversation. Still, here is my attempt to continue the conversation: why is it that in naming poets that take on the State, Giménez Smith cites two men of color in the contemporary scene, but the past is utterly white? How is it that writers of color are often dropped from anthologies in subsequent editions? Is their work deemed irrelevant? By whom? I do not have a statistical breakdown of this phenomena, but an eyeball guess, informed by the American myth of getting over things, makes me want to argue the chance of an enforced decline of significance, the chance of erasure is rather large. Even when speaking of the anthologized.