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In one essay, Villarreal examines her own gender performativity through Nirvana and Selena; in another, she offers a radical but crucial racial reading of Jon Snow in \u003ci\u003eGame of Thrones\u003c\/i\u003e; and throughout the collection, she explores how fantasy can help us interpret and heal when grief feels insurmountable. 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We intend to center voices of resistance, subjectivities that emerge from the radical margins, artists whose Americanness transcends nationalism and other borders, perspectives historically denied institutional backing--in short, poets and poetries that are urgent and necessary but do not get along nicely with Power. \u003cp\u003e Soaring and raw, these poems 'better' American Poetry by battering down racial pieties of our white neoliberal nation. This anthology is an explosive Cri de Coeur of these times. - Cathy Park Hong \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Resistance and action have always been key elements of progress, and I'm so encouraged that Bettering American Poetry exists and super humbled to be a part of it. We need this poetry, these voices, this perspective--and the poems are just really freaking good  - Tommy Pico \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bettering American Poetry is verse of the most urgent kind. 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