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The astonishment tapes : talks on poetry and autobiography with Robin Blaser and friends
\"The Astonishment Tapes is the edited transcript of revealing autobiographical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser, a founding member of the Berkeley contingent of the San Francisco Renaissance in New American Poetry\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Radical Affections
In 1950 the poet Charles Olson published his influential essay “Projective Verse” in which he proposed a poetry of “open field” composition—to replace traditional closed poetic forms with improvised forms that would reflect exactly the content of the poem. The poets and poetry that have followed in the wake of the “projectivist” movement—the Black Mountain group, the New York School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Language poets—have since been studied at length. But more often than not they have been studied through the lens of continental theory with the effect that these highly propositional, pragmatic, and adaptable forms of verse were interpreted in very cramped, polemical ways. Radical Affections is a study of six poets central to the New American poetry—Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser, and Susan Howe—with an eye both toward challenging the theoretical lenses through which they have been viewed and to opening up this counter tradition to contemporary practice. Miriam Nichols highlights many of the impulses original to the thinking and methods of each poet: appeals to perceptual experience, spontaneity, renewed relationships with nature, engaging the felt world—what Nichols terms a “poetics of outside”—focusing squarely on experiences beyond the self-regarding self. As Nichols states, these poets may well “represent the last moment in recent cultural history when a serious poet could write from perception or pursue a visionary poetics without irony or quotation marks and expect serious intellectual attention.”
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The Astonishment Tapes
The edited transcript of revealing autobiographical
audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin
Blaser Robin Blaser moved from his native Idaho to
attend the University of California, Berkeley, in 1944. While
there, he developed as a poet, explored his homosexuality,
engaged in a lively arts community, and met fellow travelers and
poets Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer. The three men became the
founding members of the Berkeley core of what is now known as the
San Francisco Renaissance in New American Poetry. In the company
of a small group of friends and writers in 1974, Blaser was asked
to narrate his personal story and to comment on the Berkeley
poetry scene. In twenty autobiographical audiotapes, Blaser talks
about his childhood in Idaho, his time in Berkeley, and his
participation in the making of a new kind of poetry.
The Astonishment Tapes is the expertly edited transcript
of these recordings by Miriam Nichols, Blaser’s editor and
biographer. In
The Astonishment Tapes Blaser comments extensively on
the poetic principles that he, Duncan, and Spicer worked through,
as well as the differences and dissonances between the three of
them. Nichols has edited the transcripts only minimally, allowing
readers to make their own interpretations of Blaser’s
intentions. Sometimes gossipy, sometimes profound, Blaser offers
his version on the inside story of one of the most significant
moments in mid-twentieth century American poetry.
The Astonishment Tapes is of considerable value and
interest, not only to readers of Blaser, Duncan, and Spicer, but
also to scholars of the early postmodern and twentieth-century
American poetry.
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The Fire
Spanning four decades of meditation on the avant-garde in poetry, art, and philosophy, the essays collected inThe Firereveal Robin Blaser's strikingly fresh perspective on \"New American\" poets, deconstructive philosophies, current events, and the state of humanities now. The essays, gathered in one volume for the first time, include commentaries on Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Mary Butts, George Bowering, Louis Dudek, Christos Dikeakos, and J. S. Bach.Blaser emerged from the \"Berkeley Renaissance\" of the 1940s and 1950s having studied under legendary medieval scholar Ernst Kantorowicz and having been a major participant in the burgeoning literary scene. His response to the cultural and political events of his time has been to construct a poetic voice that offers a singular perspective on a shareable world-and to pose that voice alongside others as a source of countermemory and potential agency. Conceived as conversations, these essays brilliantly reflect that ethos as they re-read the cultural events of the past fifty years.
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Myth and document in Charles Olson’s Maximus Poems
Large in person, sprawling on the page, and epic in ambition, Charles Olson stands in mid-twentieth century American poetry like the diorite stone on Main Street to which he once compared himself (MP, 221). Such bigness and energy have both attracted and repelled readers. Since his death in 1970, Olson has received a number of extended readings from distinguished scholars, and he continues to engage more recent critics. Jeff Wild, for example, opens an essay titled ‘Charles Olson’sMaximus: A Polis of Attention and Dialogue’ by remarking that ‘every page of Maximus seems to open new angles on Olson, on
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The holy forest : collected poems of Robin Blaser
Robin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the \"Berkeley Renaissance\" of the 1940s and 1950s as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene. The Holy Forest, now spanning five decades, is Blaser's highly acclaimed lifelong serial poem. This long-awaited revised and expanded edition includes numerous published volumes of verse, the ongoing \"Image-Nation\" and \"Truth Is Laughter\" series, and new work from 1994 to 2004. Blaser's passion for world making draws inspiration from the major poets and philosophers of our time—from friends and peers such as Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Charles Bernstein, and Steve McCaffery to virtual companions in thought such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, among others. This comprehensive compilation of Blaser's prophetic meditations on the histories, theories, emotions, experiments, and countermemories of the late twentieth century will stand as the definitive collection of his unique and luminous poetic oeuvre.
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