Dark End of the Street : Margins in American Vanguard Poetry.
Title:
Dark End of the Street : Margins in American Vanguard Poetry.
Author:
Damon, Maria.
ISBN:
9780816684007
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (329 pages)
Series:
American Culture ; v.7
American Culture
Contents:
Contents -- Pre-Monitions: Definitions, Explanations, Acknowledgments -- 1. Introductions and Interdictions -- 2. "Unmeaning Jargon" / Uncanonized Beatitude: Bob Kaufman, Poet -- 3. The Child Who Writes / The Child Who Died -- 4. Dirty Jokes and Angels: Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan Writing the Gay Community -- 5. Gertrude Stein's Doggerel "Yiddish": Women, Dogs, and Jews -- Afterword: Closer than Close -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
Damon foregrounds a number of modern American poets work and lives in order to argue that the American avant-garde is located in the experimental literary works of social "outsiders." Discussed is the work of Black/Jewish surrealist street poet Bob Kaufman, Boston-Brahmin Robert Lowell and three teenaged women writing from a South Boston housing project, pre-Stonewall gay poets Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, and Jewish lesbian-in-exile Gertrude Stein.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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