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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Crisis and the US Avant-Garde : Poetry and Real Politics
- Ort / Verlag
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- [2022]
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- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Charts the energies and tensions of avant-garde poetics and vanguard politicsCrisis 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.Key Features:Reassesses the US avant-garde’s relation to political eventsExplains how we might talk about a ‘context’ for avant-garde artProvides detailed readings of major poets, including Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, George Oppen, Amiri Baraka and othersKey reference point for experimental cultural politics today
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780748682867DOI: 10.1515/9780748682867Titel-ID: 99371225882306441
- Format
- 1 online resource (208 p.); 1 B/W illustrations
- Schlagworte
- American poetry / History and criticism / 20th century, American poetry, 20th century; History and criticism, Experimental poetry, Politics and literature, Literary Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American