03110nam 2200673Ia 450 991081420700332120230207225530.00-8166-8400-6(CKB)1000000000347225(EBL)310236(OCoLC)476093145(SSID)ssj0000134829(PQKBManifestationID)11139741(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000134829(PQKBWorkID)10076888(PQKB)10433296(MiAaPQ)EBC310236(OCoLC)191818159(MdBmJHUP)muse38990(Au-PeEL)EBL310236(CaPaEBR)ebr10159461(CaONFJC)MIL522537(EXLCZ)99100000000034722519920602d1993 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe dark end of the street[electronic resource] margins in American Vanguard poetry /Maria DamonMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19931 online resource (329 p.)American culture ;7Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-1987-5 0-8166-1986-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.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; IndexDamon 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.American culture (Minneapolis, Minn.) ;7.American poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryExperimental poetry, AmericanHistory and criticismAvant-garde (Aesthetics)United StatesMarginality, Social, in literatureAmerican poetryHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryExperimental poetry, AmericanHistory and criticism.Avant-garde (Aesthetics)Marginality, Social, in literature.811/.509Damon Maria1613795MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814207003321The dark end of the street3960933UNINA