Poetics of emergence: affect and history in postwar experimental poetry

"Experimental poetry responded to historical change in the decades after World War II with an attitude of such casual and reckless originality that its insights have often been overlooked. And yet, Benjamin Lee argues, to ignore the scenes of self and the historical occasions captured by experi...

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1. Verfasser: Lee, Benjamin ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Iowa City University of Iowa Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Contemporary North American poetry series
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Zusammenfassung:"Experimental poetry responded to historical change in the decades after World War II with an attitude of such casual and reckless originality that its insights have often been overlooked. And yet, Benjamin Lee argues, to ignore the scenes of self and the historical occasions captured by experimental poets of the 1950s and 1960s is to overlook a rich and instructive resource for our own complicated transition into the twenty-first century. In Poetics of Emergence, Lee shows that poets like Frank O'Hara, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Diane di Prima, and Allen Ginsberg offer perceptive responses to Cold War culture: lyric meditations on consequential changes in U.S. social life and politics, including the decline of the Old Left, the rise of white-collar work, and the emergence of vernacular practices like hipsterism and camp. At the same time, they offer us opportunities to anatomize our own desire for historical significance and belonging, a desire we may well see reflected and then reconfigured in their poems"--
Beschreibung:xi, 153 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781609386979

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