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Crisis and the US Avant-Garde - Poetry and Real Politics (Hardcover)
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Crisis and the US Avant-Garde - Poetry and Real Politics (Hardcover)
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Presents a major revaluation of experimental poetry's social
function in the US. 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 the trajectory of this tension
between avant garde poetics and vanguard politics since the twin
legacies of Modernism and the Great Depression. The book's radical
reappraisal of twentieth century experimental poetry in the US
reads major figures including Charles Olson, Denise Levertov and
Amiri Baraka within a new approach to traditional notions of
historical context, exploring the ways in which poetry can properly
be said to respond to political crises. Opposing the current
critical focus on the politics of aesthetic form, Hickman explores
the direct and practical relationships avant garde poets have had
with power politics, social organization and cultural movements,
providing a timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play
in political struggle going forward into our own various
contemporary crises. Reassesses the US avant garde's relation to
political events; explains how we might talk about a 'context' for
avant garde art; provides detailed readings of major poets,
including Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, George
Oppen, Amiri Baraka and others and Key reference point for
experimental cultural politics today.
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