Crisis and the US avant-garde: poetry and real politics 9780748682874, 9780748682867, 0748682864, 0748682872
Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the rol
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English Year 2015
Table of contents :
Crisis and the US Avant-Garde
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 'Longing for perfection': history and utopia in Louis Zukof
2 'Atlantis buried outside': Muriel Rukeyser, myth and war
3 Slipping the cog: Charles Olson and Cold War history
4 Husky phlegm and spoken lonesomeness: poetry against the Vietnam
5 'You can be the music yourself': Amiri Baraka's attitudes, 1974-80
6 Figures of inward: Language poetry and the end of the avant-garde
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
