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POETRY AND REAL POLITICS
Ben Hickman
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Description for POETRY AND REAL POLITICS
Hardcover. Focusses on a major revaluation of experimental poetry's social function in the US. The author explores the direct and practical relationships avant garde poets have had with power politics, social organization and cultural movements. It provides detailed readings of major poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Presents a major revaluation of experimental poetry's social function in the US. In 1934, the Marxist and Modernist poet Louis Zukofsky was labelled a 'detached recorder of isolated events' by his communist contemporaries, a writer who 'identifies life with capitalism, and so assumes that the world is merely a wasteland'. Crisis and the US Avant Garde charts the trajectory of this tension between avant garde poetics and vanguard politics since the twin legacies of Modernism and the Great Depression. The book's radical reappraisal of twentieth century experimental poetry in the US reads major figures including Charles Olson, Denise Levertov and ... Read more
Presents a major revaluation of experimental poetry's social function in the US. In 1934, the Marxist and Modernist poet Louis Zukofsky was labelled a 'detached recorder of isolated events' by his communist contemporaries, a writer who 'identifies life with capitalism, and so assumes that the world is merely a wasteland'. Crisis and the US Avant Garde charts the trajectory of this tension between avant garde poetics and vanguard politics since the twin legacies of Modernism and the Great Depression. The book's radical reappraisal of twentieth century experimental poetry in the US reads major figures including Charles Olson, Denise Levertov and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748682850
SKU
V9780748682850
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About Ben Hickman
Ben Hickman studied at University College, London and the University of Kent, and has published on the New York School, the New American Poetry, contemporary British poetry and John Clare.
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