Race and the avant-garde : experimental and Asian American poetry since 1965 / Timothy Yu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yu, Timothy (Professor of literature)

Series:

Asian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Asian American authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Experimental poetry, American--20th century--History and criticism.

Experimental poetry, American.

Race in literature.

American poetry--Asian American authors.

Physical Description:

xi, 192 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction : toward a sociology of the contemporary avant-garde

Auto poesy : Allen Ginsberg and the politics of poetry

Ron Silliman : the ethnicization of the avant-garde

Inventing a culture : Asian American poetry in the 1970s

Audience distant relative : reading Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Mr. Moto's monologue : John Yau and experimental Asian American writing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and index.

ISBN:

0804759979

9780804759977

OCLC:

234073709