Bodies on the line
Subtitle: performance and the sixties poetry reading
By: by Raphael Allison
Series: Contemporary North American poetry series
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781609383039; 9781609383046
Subjects: Oral interpretation of poetry; History; American poetry; History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Description: "Bodies on the Line offers the first, sustained study of the poetry reading in its most formative period: the 1960s. Raphael Allison closely examines a vast archive of audio recordings of several key postwar American poets to explore the social and literary context of the sixties poetry reading, which is characterized by two vastly differing styles of performance: the humanist and the skeptical strain"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.