Acknowledgments

Thanks to Debra Hawhee, Nora Marsh, Jason Maxwell, Jacquelyn Norton, and the two anonymous readers for Oxford University Press.

Margaret Walker, “Lineage” from This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems (University of Georgia Press, 1989). Chapter 2 and parts of chapter 6 draw heavily upon work previously published in Arizona Quarterly and American Literature in Transition (Cambridge University Press, 2019), respectively, both reproduced with permission.