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Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn : the collected letters
\"The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn
From the end of the 1950s through the middle of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) and Edward Dorn (1929-99), two self-consciously avant-garde poets, fostered an intense friendship primarily through correspondence. The early 1960s found both poets just beginning to publish and becoming public figures. Bonding around their commitment to new and radical forms of poetry and culture, Dorn and Baraka created an interracial friendship at precisely the moment when the Civil Rights Movement was becoming a powerful force in national politics. The major premise of the Dorn-Jones friendship as developed through their letters was artistic, but the range of subjects in the correspondence shows an incredible intersection between the personal and the public, providing a schematic map of what was so vital in postwar American culture to those living through it.
Their letters offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity. Reading through these correspondences allows access into personal biographies, and through these biographies, profound moments in American cultural history open themselves to us in a way not easily found in official channels of historical narrative and memory.
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The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes in American Poetry
[...]acrimony was leavened by passionate engagement around the possibilities of a new writing in opposition to cold war social consensus and new critical orthodoxy. The letter format of Olson's Maximus Poems and di Prima's Revolutionary Letters is a hybrid of poem and epistle designed, in the case of Olson, to preserve Gloucester's history against gentrification and corporatization, and in the case of di Prima to address environmental destruction, racism, and militarism. Mortenson finds limits to both Olson's and Naropa pedagogies, recognizing the limits to the former's autocratic teaching and his cultivation of male acolytes to the exclusion of women or to Ginsberg's own intolerance of deviations from his own practice: \"if a student wavered into surrealism or language poetry, he was going to get some flack from Allen\" (239). Daniel Belgrad's earlier book, The Culture of Spontaneity, studied the cultural politics of immediacy and action in postwar art and literature.
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The Age of Olson
The recovery of archival materials by and about Charles Olson for the University of New Mexico Press's Recencies series sets the stage for a critical reassessment of this mid-century American poet. Recent titles include his correspondences with fellow American writer Robert Duncan and British poet J.H. Prynne, a collection of Duncan's lectures on Olson, and ethnopoetic translator and writer Dennis Tedlock's posthumously published study of Olson's “Mayan Letters.” Together, these works implicitly argue for the centrality of Olson's self-described projective verse poetics to Cold War poetry. They also compel a reimagining of what the term “projective verse” meant to both Olson and his compeers.
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Forensics in the provinces: collecting the correspondence of Edward Dorn
Southern describes the collected correspondence, and the life and works of Edward Dorn. He describes the letters as vivid, acute, sensitive, and knowledgeable.
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AMIRI BARAKA AND EDWARD DORN: The Collected Letters
[...]Pisano sharpens the scholar's understanding of Baraka and Dorn and helps us fill in the story. Beyond the letters the book includes a personal and thoughtful \"Preface\" by Baraka himself, a very informative historicizing introduction by Pisano, and an insightful overview by the distinguished scholar Ammiel Alcalay. Since these letters vividly map out an important moment in the post-World War II avant-garde, Professor Moreno Pisano has done a great service for American literary and cultural history.
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