The fire : collected essays of Robin Blaser / edited and with a commentary by Miriam Nichols.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blaser, Robin.

Contributor:

Nichols, Miriam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Spanning four decades of meditation on the avant-garde in poetry, art, and philosophy, the essays collected in The Fire reveal Robin Blaser's strikingly fresh perspective on "New American" poets, deconstructive philosophies, current events, and the state of humanities now. The essays, gathered in one volume for the first time, include commentaries on Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Mary Butts, George Bowering, Louis Dudek, Christos Dikeakos, and J. S. Bach. Blaser emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940's and 1950's having studied under legendary medieval scholar Ernst Kantorowicz and having been a major participant in the burgeoning literary scene. His response to the cultural and political events of his time has been to construct a poetic voice that offers a singular perspective on a shareable world-and to pose that voice alongside others as a source of counter memory and potential agency. Conceived as conversations, these essays brilliantly reflect that ethos as they re-read the cultural events of the past fifty years.

Contents:

pt. I. Poetics

pt. II. Commentaries.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-479) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612358142

9781282358140

1282358146

9780520938854

0520938852

OCLC:

609850053