Poetic community : avant-garde activism and Cold War culture /

Drawing on a wealth of unpublished archival materials, Stephen Voyce offers new and insightful comparative analysis of poets such as John Cage, Charles Olson, Adrienne Rich, Kamau Brathwaite and bpNichol. In contrast with prevailing critical tendencies that read mid-century poetry in terms of expres...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Voyce, Stephen, 1978-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Poetics > History > 20th century. Literary movements > History > 20th century. Cold War > Influence. Poetry > Social aspects. Community activists.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Black Mountain College: A poetic of local relations
3. Caribbean artists movement: a ooetic of cultural activism
4. The women's liberation movement: a poetic for a common world
5. Toronto Research Group: a poetic of the eternal network
6. Epilogue: Community as an eternal idea.