Ebook: Crisis and the US avant-garde: poetry and real politics

Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary crises.;Crisis and the US Avant-Garde; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'Longing for perfection': history and utopia in Louis Zukof; 2 'Atlantis buried outside': Muriel Rukeyser, myth and war; 3 Slipping the cog: Charles Olson and Cold War history; 4 Husky phlegm and spoken lonesomeness: poetry against the Vietnam; 5 'You can be the music yourself': Amiri Baraka's attitudes, 1974-80; 6 Figures of inward: Language poetry and the end of the avant-garde; Notes; Bibliography; Index.