Measure's Measure - Boughn, Michael
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"MEASURE'S MEASURE collects essays by Michael Boughn concerned with the explicit poetics of an interrelated but individually distinct group of poets, most of whom came to prominence after Donald Allen published his anthology, THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY, with Grove Press in 1960. Boughn includes three poets and one philosopher that antedate the "Donald Allen" but are arguably that poetry's important predecessors and inspirers: Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams. The philosopher is Emerson. The Donald Allen poets treated are primarily Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer,…mehr

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"MEASURE'S MEASURE collects essays by Michael Boughn concerned with the explicit poetics of an interrelated but individually distinct group of poets, most of whom came to prominence after Donald Allen published his anthology, THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY, with Grove Press in 1960. Boughn includes three poets and one philosopher that antedate the "Donald Allen" but are arguably that poetry's important predecessors and inspirers: Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams. The philosopher is Emerson. The Donald Allen poets treated are primarily Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Robin Blaser though with not inconsiderable glances at others. The poetic practices and thematic attentions of these writers do constitute something like an "identity" for this group, whose work may be characterized as "the poetry of initiatory transmission." The poets not only mean to present the content of their poems but to transmit the conditions of awareness, imagination, and intelligence from which that practice of poetry and thought come to be"--
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Michael Boughn worked in the Teamsters for nearly ten years before returning to university to earn a PhD in 1986 after studying with poets John Clarke and Robert Creeley. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Iterations of the Diagonal, DISLOCATIONS IN CRYSTAL, 22 SKIDDO / SUBTRACTIONS, COSMOGRAPHIA: A POST- LUCREATIAN FAUX MICRO-EPIC (shortlisted for the 2011 Governor General's Award for Poetry), GREAT CANADIAN POEMS FOR THE AGED VOL. 1 ILLUS. ED. (2012), and most recently, CITY: BOOK 1: SINGULAR ASSUMPTIONS (BookThug, 2014). He has also published books for young adults, including the Maple Award nominated Into the World of the Dead, a mystery novel, and a descriptive bibliography of the American poet, H.D. He recently edited (with Victor Coleman) Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book for the University of California Press. He has taught courses at the University of Toronto since 1993, recently focusing primarily on American writing with special emphasis on the innovative writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.