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Acts of poetry : American poets' theater and the politics of performance /

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"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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bean, Heidi R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Performance poetry > United States > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
American poetry.
Performance poetry.
United States.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: where is poets' theater?
  • Repeating Gertrude Stein
  • "Everyone is watching us!" the poets' theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950-1956
  • From poets' theater to "antitextual" theater: the living theatre and the rhetoric of the real
  • Sounding the revolution: Amiri Baraka's Black Arts poets' theater
  • Carla Harryman and the ethics of performance
  • Poets' theater as postdramatic theater: learning from Suzan-Lori Parks's The America play
  • Epilogue: poets' theater in the twenty-first century.