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Acts of poetry : American poets' theater and the politics of performance / by Heidi R. Bean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bean, Heidi R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performance poetry.
- Theater--United States--20th century--History.
- Theater.
- American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Acts of Poetry examines the rhetoric, history, and practice of postwar American poet's theater. American poet's theater proliferated in the postwar period, when rich, performance-oriented poetry and theater scenes came together on the makeshift stages of urban coffee houses, shared apartments, and underground theaters. And yet its importance and history have been almost entirely ignored by critics. Acts of Poetry shines a spotlight on the practice of poet's theater by examining key groups and practitioners. Bringing together cultural history and criticism, it maps poet's theater in relation to performance practices such as poetry readings, avant-garde theater, and conceptual art and demonstrates not only the emergence of poet's theater in the postwar period but its continuation and legacy today.
- Contents:
- Introduction: where is poets' theater?
- Chapter One: Repeating Gertrude Stein
- Chapter Two: "Everyone is watching us!" The Poets' Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950-1956
- Chapter Three: From Poets' Theater to "Antitextual" Theater: The Living Theatre and the Rhetoric of the Real
- Chapter Four: Sounding the Revolution: Amiri Baraka's Black Arts Poets' Theater
- Chapter Five: Carla Harryman and the Ethics of Performance
- Chapter Six: Poets' Theater as Postdramatic Theater: Learning from Suzan-Lori Parks The America Play
- Epiloque: Poets' Theater in the Twenty-First Century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-237) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472125326
- 047212532X
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