The dark end of the street : margins in American Vanguard poetry / Maria Damon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Damon, Maria.

Series:

American culture (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 7.

American culture ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

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

Literature and society.

Experimental poetry, American--History and criticism.

Experimental poetry, American.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Marginality, Social, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

0-8166-8400-6

OCLC:

476093145