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Works Cited for “Thickening the medium”: Material reorientations of the ‘witnessing’ stance in Divya Victor’s CURB the artists’ book





Balakian, Peter. Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture. 1st ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Baum, Erica. Dog Ear. 2nd Edition: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011.

Best, Stephen Michael. None like Us : Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life. Duke University Press, 2018.

Bhatia, Sunil. American Karma: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora, New York, USA: New York University Press, 2007. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/10.18574/nyu/9780814723111.001.0001

Blau DuPlessis, Rachel. “Statement on Poetics: Pleasures, Polemics, Practices, Stakes.” Inciting Poetics : Thinking and Writing Poetry, ed. Jeanne Heuving; Tyronne Williams. University of New Mexico Press, 2019. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=1936475&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Castillo, Elaine. How to Read Now : Essays. Viking, 2022.

Chaffa, Mandana. “CURB by Divya Victor Review by Mandana Chaffa.” The Los Angeles Review. Oct. 12, 2021. https://losangelesreview.org/review-mandana-chaffa/

Cheng, Cindy I-Fen. Citizens of Asian America : Democracy and Race during the Cold War. New York University Press, 2013.

Christian, Barbara. “The Race for Theory.” Feminist Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, College Park, Md: Feminist Studies, Inc, pp. 67–79, doi:10.2307/3177999.

Choi, Don Mee. “On Curb.” Map of Curb(ed), n/d. https://divyavictorcurb.org/On-Curb-5

Creswell, Robyn. “Poetry in Extremis.” The New Yorker. Feb. 12, 2014. https://www-newyorker-com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/books/page-turner/poetry-in-extremis

deNiord, Charles. “The High Place of American Poetry: The Problem with Witness.” AGNI 39. April 15, 1994. https://agnionline.bu.edu/essay/the-high-place-of-american-poetry-the-problem-with-witness/

Dowling, Sarah. Translingual Poetics: Writing Personhood Under Settler Colonialism. University of Iowa Press, 2018.

Ellis, JJJJJerome (2020), ‘The clearing: Music, dysfluency, Blackness and time’, Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, 5:2, pp. 215–233, doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/jivs_00026_1

Epstein, Sue. “Acquittals in Old Bridge beating death spark tears of relief, tears of frustration.” NJ.com. Oct. 1, 2013. https://www.nj.com/middlesex/2013/10/acquittals_in_old_bridge_beating_death_spark_tears_of_relief_tears_of_frustration.html

Forché, Carolyn. What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. 1st ed., New York: Penguin Publishing Group, 2019.

Forché, Carolyn. “The Colonel.” Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49862/the-colonel

Forché, Carolyn. Against Forgetting: Twentieth-century poetry of witness. W. W. Norton. 1993.

Gallagher, Kristen. “Notes Toward an Anthropological Process.” Jacket2. Feb. 5, 2016. https://jacket2.org/article/notes-toward-anthropological-process

GISGeography. “Degrees/Minutes/Seconds (DMS) vs. Decimal Degrees (DD).” GISGeography. March 9, 2024. https://gisgeography.com/decimal-degrees-dd-minutes-seconds-dms/

Hong, Cathy Park. “Against Witness.” POETRY Magazine. May 2015. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70218/against-witness

hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress : Education as the Practice of Freedom. Routledge, 1994.

Kim, Claire Jean. “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans.” Politics & Society, vol. 27, no. 1, Los Altos, Calif: SAGE Publications, 1999, pp. 105–38, doi:10.1177/0032329299027001005.

Leong, Michael. “Traditions of Innovation in Asian American Poetry.” Twenty-First Century American Poetry, ed. Timothy Yu. Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 31–47, doi:10.1017/9781108699518.004.

LoadBang Music. “Absence of reliable ghosts by Carolyn Chen / loadbang.” Youtube, uploaded by LoadBang Music, April 23, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvJThAn-aQ8

Long Soldier, Layli. Whereas. Graywolf Press, 2017.

Long Soldier, Layli. “Documentary Poetics: Searching for the Emotional Subject(ive) Inside the Object(ive) Language of the Document.” Helen Zell Visiting Writers Series. Sept. 30, 2022. Online. Lecture.

Magi, Jill. “Poetry in Light of Documentary.” Chicago Review, vol. 59, no. 1/2, Chicago: Chicago Review, 2014, pp. 248–75.

McGann, Jerome J. The Textual Condition. Princeton University Press, 1991.

Odell, Jenny. How to Do Nothing : Resisting the Attention Economy. Melville House, 2019.

PennSound. “PoemTalk 173: On poems from Divya Victor’s CURB.” YouTube, uploaded by PennSound. June 13, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVuLDzptF6s

Philip, M. NourbeSe. “On Curb.” Map of CURB. n/d. https://divyavictorcurb.org/On-Curb-4

Rankine, Camille. “The Known Unknown: Persona, Empathy, and the Limits of Imagination.” POETRY Foundation. April 29, 2019. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2019/04/the-known-unknown-persona-empathy-and-the-limits-of-imagination

Rankine, Claudia, et al., editors. The Racial Imaginary : Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Fence Books, 2015.

Rankine, Claudia; Michael Dowdy. American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement. Wesleyan University Press, 2018.

Retallack, Joan. The Poethical Wager. University of California Press, 2003.

Rhodes, Mick. “Tufts winner believes in the transcendent power of poetry.” Claremont Courier. March 31, 2022. https://claremont-courier.com/schools/tufts-winner-believes-in-the-transcendent-power-of-poetry-64709/

Salesses, Matthew. Craft in the Real World. Catapult Books, 2021.

Sandoval, Edgar and Sean Keenan. “‘Who could imagine…, 8 Dead in Atlanta Spa Shootings, With Fears of Anti-Asian Bias.” The New York Times. March 17, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/17/us/shooting-atlanta-acworth

Siegert, Yvette. “What You Have Not Heard: Reading and Writing with Carolyn Forché’s ‘The Colonel.’ Annulet: Issue 4. https://annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Yvette-Siegert-What-You-Have-Not-Heard

Sharif, Solmaz. “A Poetry of Proximity.” The Kenyon Review. n/d. https://kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/kenyon-review-credos/selections/sharif-credo/

Skop, Emily ; Li, Wei. “Asians in America’s Suburbs: Patterns and Consequences of Settlement.” Geographical Review, vol. 95, no. 2, Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis, 2005, pp. 167–88, doi:10.1111/j.1931-0846.2005.tb00361.x.

Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. 1st ed., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security. “Instructions for Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, and Form I-130A, Supplemental Information for Spouse Beneficiary.” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-130instr.pdf

Victor, Divya. Kith. Fence Books / Book*hug, 2017.
—. “>>[WOMAN WAILING]: On the Problem of Representing Trauma as a Brown Woman Within the Institution of Poetry.” POETRY Foundation. April 30, 2019. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2019/04/woman-wailing-on-the-problem-of-representing-trauma-as-a-brown-woman-within-the-institution-of-poetry
—. “Coalition in the Imaginary: A Conversation with Divya Victor.” Interview with Sanchuri Sur. June 16, 2021. https://aaww.org/coalition-in-the-imaginary-a-conversation-with-divya-victor/
—. CURB. New York: Nightboat Books. 2021.
—. “Encircling CURB by Divya Victor.” YouTube, uploaded by Nightboat Books. June 23, 2021.
—. Personal Interview. Sept. 8, 2023.

Victor, Divya and Aaron Cohick. Personal Interview. Oct. 6, 2023.

Victor, Divya and Amarnath Ravva. “Hedges,” “Lawn (Arid),” “Stoop (Damp),” “Curb 2,” “Curb 4,” “Lawn (Temperate).” Divya Victor, Mapping CURB(ed). https://divyavictorcurb.org/Amarnath-Ravva

Yu, Timothy. “Against Witness: Anti-Commemorative Asian/American Poetics: A Pile of Past: Lawson Fusao Inada’s Anti-Commemorative Poetics.” Verge (Minneapolis, Minn.), vol. 5, no. 2, University of Minnesota Press, 2019, pp. 76.