Crisis and the US Avant-Garde: poetry and real politics
Baraka, Amiri, Hickman, Ben, Olson, Charles, Rukeyser, Muriel, Zukofsky, Louis
Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary crises, the book connects major twentieth-century poets and movements, including Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka and Language Poetry, with their various moments of political upheaval. Reading poems as attempted interventions in turning-points or moments of decision within American culture, Crisis and the US Avant-Garde looks at how poetry seeks to go beyond poetic language, and investigates how experimental American poetry has attempted to responds to imperialism, war, class conflict and capitalism itself.
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Year:
2015
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
200
ISBN 10:
0748682872
ISBN 13:
9780748682874
File:
PDF, 1.36 MB
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english, 2015