Contextual practice
Subtitle: assemblage and the erotic in postwar poetry and art
By: Stephen Fredman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780804763585
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Forging a contextual practice : assemblage and erotic poetics; title: The contextual art of Robert Creeley's interviews; title: Assemblage as archeology and history : Harry Smith's anthology of American folk music and Charles Reznikoff's testimony; title: Visionary assemblage : Harry Smith and the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, and Jack Spicer; title: Surrealism and Kabbalah in Semina culture : Wallace Berman cultivates the erotic in California poetry and art; title: Before Caesar's gate, Robert Duncan comes to grief : the Vietnam War and the 'unengendered child'; title: In Robert Duncan's 'anima rebellion,' Denise Levertov meets the goddess Kali; title: Jerome Rothenberg's symposium of the whole.