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Robert Creeley in Transition 1967/1970: Changing Formats for the Public Poetry Reading
According to McCormack, the key benefit of these readings was their ability to render complex modern forms of poetry accessible and intimate, due to the authority of the poet/reader over the delivery of the work and the kind of \"emotional interaction\" that the public reading allows between poet and audience (29). [...]Creeley's appearance in Montreal was sandwiched between the last two performances in the series. [...]Layton casts Creeley as a craftsman in control of his materials, a poet invested in the composition of formally polished, enduring poems, an investment that characterized Layton's own poetic ethos. [...]even as the actions and effects I have just named are deployed and realized throughout Creeley's performance, there is also a discernible arc or architecture that informs the reading as a whole, suggesting that the message of anti-performance I have just described can be delivered in different registers and different tones of voice.
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The cool school : writing from America's hip underground
\"Who were the original hipsters? In this ... collection, Glenn O'Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the margins and subterranean tribes of mid-twentieth century America--the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of those alienated by racial and sexual exclusion, of outlaws and drug users creating their own dissident networks. Whether labeled as Bop or Beat or Punk, these outsider voices ignored or suppressed by the mainstream would merge and recombine in unpredictable ways, and change American culture forever\"--Amazon.com.
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Missing a Beat
In 1961, Beat writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a slim volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer. James Baldwin called Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer an \"extraordinary volume.\" Saul Bellow published an excerpt in his journal The Noble Savage, and Mailer saluted Krim’s jazzy prose with its \"shifts and shatterings of mood.\" Despite such praise and critical attention, Krim’s work is excluded from most Beat anthologies and is little known outside literary circles. With Missing a Beat, a collection of eighteen essays by Krim published between 1957 and 1989, Cohen introduces this influential writer to a new generation. In the Village Voice, New York Magazine, New York Times, and elsewhere, Krim pioneered a new style of subjective and personal reporting to write about the postwar American scene from a Jewish angle. Aggressively unacademic, Krim’s journalism displays the \"rapid, nervous, breathless tempo\" that Irving Howe called a hallmark of Jewish literature. Krim outlived his early literary fame, but he produced an impressive body of work and was a tremendous prose stylist. Missing a Beat resurrects an American original, finding Krim a new literary home among such celebrated writers as Norman Mailer, David Mamet, and Saul Bellow.
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Beat & Beyond: Ann Charters's Photographs
Because of Charters, we have photo documentation of Jack Kerouac and his mother at their home in Hyannis, Massachusetts (1966); Gary Snyder and Michael McClure at a Stockholm lake (1972); John Clellon Holmes smoking a cigarette in Old Saybrook, Connecticut (1981); Charles Olson in Gloucester, Massachusetts (1967); Anne Waldman with...
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Reference
Several reference books are reviewed including Samantha Baskind's Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists, Philip Katcher's The Civil War Day by Day and Christine Adamec and Laurie C. Miller's third edition of The Encyclopedia of Adoption.
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