This book analyzes the relationship between silence, formal innovation, and social justice in recent poetry by women, non-binary writers, and writers of color. Silence in poetry has been heretofore undertheorized, as most books that engage this topic are scholarly monographs focused on a single writer's work, such as Therese Lentfoer's Words and Silence: On the Poetry of Thomas Merton and Jean Franco's Cesar Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and...