Title: Bodies on the line
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"--
Subjects: Oral interpretation of poetry, History, American poetry, History and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century