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Poetics of Emergence - Affect and History in Postwar Experimental Poetry (Paperback)
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Poetics of Emergence - Affect and History in Postwar Experimental Poetry (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary North American Poetry
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Experimental poetry responded to historical change in the decades
after World War II, with an attitude of such casual and reckless
originality that its insights have often been overlooked. However,
as Benjamin Lee argues, to ignore the scenes of self and the
historical occasions captured by experimental poets during the
1950s and 1960s is to overlook a rich and instructive resource for
our own complicated transition into the twenty-first century.Frank
O'Hara and fellow experimental poets like Amiri Baraka, Diane di
Prima, and Allen Ginsberg offer us a set of perceptive responses to
Cold War culture, lyric meditations on consequential changes in
U.S. social life and politics, including the decline of the Old
Left, the rise of white-collar workers, and the emergence of
vernacular practices like hipsterism and camp. At the same time,
they offer us opportunities to anatomize our own desire for
historical significance and belonging, a desire we may well see
reflected and reconfigured in the work of these poets.
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