Crisis 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.
In 1934, the Marxist and Modernist poet Louis Zukofsky was labelled a 'detached recorder of isolated events' by his communist contemporaries, a writer who 'identifies life with capitalism, and so assumes that the world is merely a wasteland'. Crisis and the US Avant-Garde charts…
"Examining the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis, the book provides a commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into contemporary crises."
Examining the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis, the book provides a commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into contemporary crises.
Charts the energies and tensions of avant-garde poetics and vanguard politics. Crisis 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 var…