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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784379703321

Autore

Damon Maria

Titolo

The dark end of the street [[electronic resource] ] : margins in American Vanguard poetry / / Maria Damon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993

ISBN

0-8166-8400-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

American culture ; ; 7

Disciplina

811/.509

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century

Experimental poetry, American - History and criticism

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - United States

Marginality, Social, in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.