LEADER 03110nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910814207003321 005 20230207225530.0 010 $a0-8166-8400-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000347225 035 $a(EBL)310236 035 $a(OCoLC)476093145 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000134829 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11139741 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000134829 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10076888 035 $a(PQKB)10433296 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC310236 035 $a(OCoLC)191818159 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse38990 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL310236 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10159461 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL522537 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000347225 100 $a19920602d1993 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe dark end of the street$b[electronic resource] $emargins in American Vanguard poetry /$fMaria Damon 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc1993 215 $a1 online resource (329 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican culture ;$v7 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-1987-5 311 $a0-8166-1986-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aDamon foregrounds a number of modern American poets work and lives in order to argue that the American avant-garde is located in the experimental literary works of social "outsiders." Discussed is the work of Black/Jewish surrealist street poet Bob Kaufman, Boston-Brahmin Robert Lowell and three teenaged women writing from a South Boston housing project, pre-Stonewall gay poets Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, and Jewish lesbian-in-exile Gertrude Stein. 410 0$aAmerican culture (Minneapolis, Minn.) ;$v7. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aExperimental poetry, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$zUnited States 606 $aMarginality, Social, in literature 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aExperimental poetry, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAvant-garde (Aesthetics) 615 0$aMarginality, Social, in literature. 676 $a811/.509 700 $aDamon$b Maria$01613795 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814207003321 996 $aThe dark end of the street$93960933 997 $aUNINA