Stephen Voyce

Poetic Community

Avant-Garde Activism and Cold War Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Poetic Community examines the relationship between poetry and community formation in the decades after the Second World War. In four detailed case studies (of Black Mountain College in North Carolina, the Caribbean Artists Movement in London, the Women’s Liberation Movement at sites throughout the US, and the Toronto Research Group in Canada) the book documents and compares a diverse group of social models, small press networks, and cultural coalitions informing literary practice during the Cold War era. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished archival materials, Stephen Voyce offers new and insightful comparative analysis of poets such as John Cage, Charles Olson, Adrienne Rich, Kamau Brathwaite, and bpNichol. In contrast with prevailing critical tendencies that read mid-century poetry in terms of expressive modes of individualism, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781442645240
• ISBN-10: 1442645245
• Artikelnr.: 37055613

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. 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 Idea
Notes
Bibliography
Index