Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in "New American" Poetry examines the crucial, yet sometimes fraught connections between poets associated with Donald Allen's groundbreaking 1960 anthology, The New American Poetry. Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets,
Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in “New American” Poetry
✍ Scribed by Andrew Mossin (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 241
- Series
- Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-23
“In Thicket”: Charles Olson, Poetic Career, and the Crisis of Cold War Masculinity....Pages 25-64
“Homosexual Advertising”: Gay Subjectivity, Modernist Form, and Robert Duncan’s The Venice Poem....Pages 65-100
In the Shadow of Nerval: Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, and the Poetics of (Mis)Translation....Pages 101-128
Recovering the Public World: Robin Blaser, Hannah Arendt, and the Discourses of Self and Other in Image-Nations 1–12....Pages 129-157
“Collapsed Aura”: Nathaniel Mackey, Robert Duncan, and the Poetics of Discrepant Subjectivity in “Song of the Andoumboulou”....Pages 159-190
Afterword....Pages 191-205
Back Matter....Pages 207-235
✦ Subjects
Poetry and Poetics; Twentieth-Century Literature; Gender Studies
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