Trespassing in the Archive: Poetry in Conversation with History
By (Author) Kristina Marie Darling
Contributions by Sandra Beasley
Contributions by Ibis Gomez-Vega
Contributions by David Seth Horton
Contributions by John James
Contributions by Tiffany Troy
Contributions by J.S. Westbrook
Contributions by Haihong Yang
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
7th August 2025
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Hardback
192
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
This book is a collection of essays on works of poetry that engage, question, or reimagine history.
The essays in this volume consider topics ranging from the ethics of archival projects, the aesthetics of the archive, questions of access to archives for creative practitioners and how this accessibility has shaped the works themselves, the politics of the archive, and the ways in which poetry has offered a hypothetical testing ground where the power dynamics, upheavals, and discontent reflected historical texts can be renegotiated.
Kristina Marie Darling is author of over thirty volumes of poetry, essays, and fiction.