Male subjectivity and poetic form in new American poetry
By: Andrew Mossin.
Series: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230617322
Subjects: American poetry -- Male authors -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Subjectivity in literature; Self in literature; Masculinity in literature; Authorship -- Collaboration; Poetics
Description: "Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in "New American" Poetry examines the sometimes fraught connections between poets associated with the New American poetry of Donald Allen's anthology and the resulting formal choices these poets made in their work. Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this books suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to the writing that got done, especially at early stages in these poets' careers. "No one listens to poetry," Jack Spicer famously wrote. This book shows how a particular group of poets did listen to each other and what they made of what they heard"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: "In thicket": Charles Olson, poetic career and the crisis of Cold War masculinity; title: "Homosexual advertising": gay subjectivity, modernist form, and Robert Duncan's the Venice poem; title: In the shadow of Nerval: Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser and the poetics of (mis)translation; title: Recovering the public world: Robin Blaser, Hannah Arendt, and the discourses of self and other in image-nations; title: "Collapsed aura": Nathaniel Mackey, Robert Duncan and the poetics of discrepant subjectivity in "Song of the Andoumboulou; title: Afterword: towards a poetics of mutual understanding.