Cusp
Subtitle: recollections of poetry in transition
By: edited by Geraldine Monk
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bristol
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781848612501
Subjects: English poetry; Poets; Biography
Description: "This book is probably best described as a collective autobiography. With few exceptions the contributing poets write about their origins and influences and how they became involved in poetry. My main objective is to present the spirit of a brief era which, in retrospect, was exceptional in its momentum towards the democratisation and dissemination of poetry. The era or "cusp" I'm concentrating on is between World War II and the advent of the World Wide Web. Already extraordinary in its social, political and cultural upheaval, it seems even more heightened when set against the technological transformation which has since been unleashed."--Geraldine Monk's introduction to this volume.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.