Voyce Poetic Community

Avant-Garde activism and Cold War Culture
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4426-6215-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Poetic Community demonstrates that the most important literary innovations of the post-war period were the results of intensive collaboration and social action opposing the Cold War’s ideological enclosures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Voyce, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Black Mountain College: A Poetic of Local Relations - Assembly Point of Acts
- We are the Process: Toward a Theory of Field
- To Join the Arts in Action: John Cage at the College
- Polis and Totality in The Maximus Poems
- For Love Revisited: Robert Creeley and the Politics of Friendship
- “Public Parks” and “Poetic Communes”: Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan’s Open Form Protest
3. Caribbean Artists Movement: A Poetic of Cultural Activism - Link-up: The Poetic of a Social Movement
- Underground Language
- “Eating the Dead”: Kamau Brathwaite’s Arrivants in London
- To Havana and Beyond: John La Rose, Andrew Salkey, and a Map for Third World Unity
4. The Women’s Liberation Movement: A Poetic for a Common World - Devising our Networks
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
- Usurping the Left’s Mimeograph Machine: Robin Morgan, WITCH, and Poetic Insurrection
- The Location of the Commons: Adrienne Rich, Judy Grahn, and the Building of a Common World
- Consciousness-Raising as Poetic Discourse
5. Toronto Research Group: A Poetic of the Eternal Network - The Institute of Creative Misunderstanding
- The Kids of the Book-Machine
- A Realignment of Kinship: The Four Horsemen
- The Eternal Network
6. Epilogue: Community as an Eternal IdeaNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

VoyceStephen:

Stephen Voyce is an assistant professor in the Department of English and a member of the Digital Studio for Public Humanities at the University of Iowa.