Crisis and the US Avant-Garde : : Poetry and Real Politics / / Ben Hickman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Hickman, Ben,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1 'Longing for perfection': history and utopia in Louis Zukofsky --; 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 War --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748682867; 9783110780451
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748682867
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ben Hickman.

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