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Crisis and the US Avant-Garde : Poetry and Real Politics, EPUB eBook

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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 various contemporary crises, the book connects major twentieth-century poets and movements, including Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka and Language Poetry, with their various moments of political upheaval. Reading poems as attempted interventions in ‘turning-points’ or ‘moments of decision’ within American culture, Crisis and the US Avant-Garde looks at how poetry seeks to go beyond poetic language, and investigates how experimental American poetry has attempted to responds to imperialism, war, class conflict and capitalism itself.

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  • 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
  • Key reference point for experimental cultural politics today

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