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Avant-Folk: Small Press Poetry Networks from 1950 to the Present
Ross Hair
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Description for Avant-Folk: Small Press Poetry Networks from 1950 to the Present
Paperback. A critical study of the intersection of folk and avant-garde poetics in transatlantic small press poetry networks from the 1950s up to the present. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; DSBH; DSC; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 335 x 20. Weight in Grams: 586.
Avant-Folk is the first comprehensive study of a loose collective of important British and American poets, publishers, and artists (including Lorine Niedecker, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Jonathan Williams) and the intersection of folk and modernist, concrete and lyric poetics within the small press poetry networks that developed around these figures from the 1950s up to the present day. Avant-Folk argues that the merging of the demotic with the avant-garde is but one of the many consequences of a particularly vibrant period of creative exchange when this network of poets, publishers, and artists expanded considerably the possibilities of small press publishing. ... Read more
Avant-Folk is the first comprehensive study of a loose collective of important British and American poets, publishers, and artists (including Lorine Niedecker, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Jonathan Williams) and the intersection of folk and modernist, concrete and lyric poetics within the small press poetry networks that developed around these figures from the 1950s up to the present day. Avant-Folk argues that the merging of the demotic with the avant-garde is but one of the many consequences of a particularly vibrant period of creative exchange when this network of poets, publishers, and artists expanded considerably the possibilities of small press publishing. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781383292
SKU
V9781781383292
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About Ross Hair
Ross Hair is a lecturer in American Studies at the University of East Anglia and author of 'Ronald Johnson’s Modernist Collage Poetry' (2010) and co-editor of 'Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music: America Changed Through Music' (2016).
Reviews for Avant-Folk: Small Press Poetry Networks from 1950 to the Present
Reviews 'Avant-Folk is extremely well researched, rich in detail, thought-provoking and highly readable.' DURA 'The homemade folk poetry publishing tradition is no obstacle to global recognition as Ross Hair shows in Avant-Folk: Small Press Poetry Networks from 1950 to the Present. Hair’s book points to the variety of ways that poetic networks can evolve and become important ways of ... Read more