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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Raphael Allison |
ISBN: | 9781609383039 1609383036 |
OCLC Number: | 878111761 |
Description: | xvii, 250 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | The antinomies of sixties reading -- Robert Frost, live -- Charles Olson's textual voice -- The public and private voices of Gwendolyn Brooks -- The disability poetics of William Carlos Williams and Larry Eigner -- Conclusion: Notes on gender. |
Series Title: | Contemporary North American poetry series. |
Responsibility: | by Raphael Allison. |
Abstract:
Offers the first sustained study of the poetry reading in its most formative period: the 1960s. Raphael Allison closely examines a vast archive of audio recordings of several key post-war American poets to explore the social and literary context of the sixties poetry reading, which is characterized by contrasting differing styles of performance: the humanist style and the sceptical strain.
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