Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn: the collected letters
by Baraka, Amiri, Dorn, Edward
fromRecencies
"The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity"
Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn: the collected letters
by Baraka, Amiri, Dorn, Edward
fromRecencies
"The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity"--
The essays in this collection examine the breadth of Eigner's interests and influence, considering issues pertaining to ecopoetics, race and ethnicity, disability, technology, media, soundscapes, phenomenology, and popular culture.
Larry Eigner (1927-1996), born with cerebral palsy, was an active and significant figure for the New American Poets of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly with the Black Mountain School. While his writing has been overshadowed by his contemporaries, such as Charles Olson and Rober…
How long is the present: selected talk poems of David Antin
by Antin, David, Fredman, Stephen
fromRecencies
"Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the 'talk poem.' He insisted that his poems be oral and created in front of a live audience, in a specific time and place, with the transcription of the performance adjusted for print by presenting it not in prose but in…
How long is the present: selected talk poems of David Antin
by Antin, David
fromRecencies
"Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the "talk poem." He insisted that his poems be oral and created in front of a live audience, in a specific time and place, with the transcription of the performance adjusted for print by presenting it not in prose but in…
How long is the present: selected talk poems of David Antin
by Antin, David
fromRecencies
"Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the 'talk poem.' He insisted that his poems be oral and created in front of a live audience, in a specific time and place, with the transcription of the performance adjusted for print by presenting it not in prose but in…
"Robert Duncan's nine lectures on Charles Olson, delivered intermittently from 1961 to 1983, explore the modernist literary background and influences of Olson's influential 1950 essay "Projective Verse." These transcribed talks pay tribute to Olson and expand our knowledge of Du…
"The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges of twentieth-century American poetry. The 130 letters collected in this volume begin in 1947 just after the two poets first meet in Berkeley, California, and continue to Olson's …
The transnational modernist Mina Loy (1882-1966) embodied the avant-garde in many literary and artistic media. This book positions her as a theorist of the avant-garde and of what it means to be an artist. Foregrounding Loy's critical interrogation of Futurist, Dadaist, Surreali…
The essays in Inciting poetics provide a variety of provocative answers to the book's opening question, "What are the poetics now?" Authored by some of the most important contemporary poets and critics, the essays present new theoretical and practical approaches to poetry and po…
The essays in Inciting Poetics provide provocative answers to thebook's opening question, ""What are poetics now?""
Inciting poetics: thinking and writing poetry
by Altieri, Charles, DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, Dowling, Sarah, Frost, Elisabeth A., (Elisabeth Ann), Hejinian, Lyn, Hogue, Cynthia, Mackey, Nathaniel, Nielsen, Aldon Lynn, Place, Vanessa, Reed, Brian M., Schwartz, Leonard, Silliman, Ronald
fromRecencies
The essays in Inciting poetics provide a variety of provocative answers to the book's opening question, "What are the poetics now?" Authored by some of the most important contemporary poets and critics, the essays present new theoretical and practical approaches to poetry and po…
The essays in Inciting Poetics provide provocative answers to the book's opening question, ""What are poetics now?""
Loose cannons: selected prose
by Sanchez, Lila, Middleton, Christopher, Kleinzahler, August, Trussell, Philip
fromRecencies
Loose cannons: selected prose
by Sanchez, Lila, Middleton, Christopher, Kleinzahler, August, Trussell, Philip
fromRecencies
Like his poetry, Middleton's prose pieces are alive with incongruity, collage, and surprising juxtapositions.