Contextual practice : assemblage and the erotic in postwar poetry and art /
Fredman, Stephen,1948-
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Forging a contextual practice : assemblage and erotic poetics -- The contextual art of Robert Creeley's interviews -- Assemblage as archeology and history : Harry Smith's anthology of American folk music and Charles Reznikoff's testimony -- Visionary assemblage : Harry Smith and the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, and Jack Spicer -- Surrealism and Kabbalah in Semina culture : Wallace Berman cultivates the erotic in California poetry and art -- Before Caesar's gate, Robert Duncan comes to grief : the Vietnam War and the 'unengendered child' -- In Robert Duncan's 'anima rebellion,' Denise Levertov meets the goddess Kali -- Jerome Rothenberg's symposium of the whole.
American poetry
Assemblage (Art)
Erotic poetry, American
Erotic art
Poetics.
Art
Aesthetics, Modern.