TY - BOOK AU - Hickman,Ben TI - Crisis and the US Avant-Garde: Poetry and Real Politics SN - 9780748682850 AV - PS325 U1 - 811.5/4/093581 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - American poetry KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - American poetry, 20th century; History and criticism KW - Experimental poetry KW - Politics and literature KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1 'Longing for perfection': history and utopia in Louis Zukofsky --; 2 'Atlantis buried outside': Muriel Rukeyser, myth and war --; 3 Slipping the cog: Charles Olson and Cold War history --; 4 Husky phlegm and spoken lonesomeness: poetry against the Vietnam War --; 5 'You can be the music yourself': Amiri Baraka's attitudes, 1974-80 --; 6 Figures of inward: Language poetry and the end of the avant-garde --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Charts the energies and tensions of avant-garde poetics and vanguard politicsCrisis 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.Key Features:Reassesses the US avant-garde's relation to political eventsExplains how we might talk about a 'context' for avant-garde artProvides detailed readings of major poets, including Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, George Oppen, Amiri Baraka and othersKey reference point for experimental cultural politics today UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748682867 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748682867 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748682867/original ER -