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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820431403321

Autore

Blaser Robin

Titolo

The Astonishment Tapes : Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with Robin Blaser and Friends / / Robin Blaser  in company with Warren Tallman, Angela Bowering, George Bowering, Frank Davey, Dwight Gardiner, Martina Kuharic, and Daphne Marlatt ; edited by Miriam Nichols

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa : , : The University Alabama Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8173-8823-0

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Collana

Modern & contemporary poetics

Classificazione

LCO002000LIT014000

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General

Poetry - History and criticism

Poetics

Poets, American - 20th century

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Out of Idaho; 2. Berkeley: Astonishments; 3. Ernst Kantorowicz: Falling into History; 4. Dante and the Metaphysics of Light; 5. Moderns and Contemporaries: The Knowledge of the Poet; Appendix A: List of Names; Appendix B: Guide to the Complete Transcript of the Tapes; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"The Astonishment Tapes is the edited transcript of revealing autobiographical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser, a founding member of the Berkeley contingent of the San Francisco Renaissance in New American Poetry"--