Spanning the period from the modernists through the poets of "Origin" and "The Black Mountain Review," the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, and the New York poets of the Poet's Theatre to the first mapping and performance of a new poetry and poetics from the racial, sexual, aboriginal, and cultural margins of a formerly Eurocentric and chauvinist poetry, "Poet to Publisher" tells the story of how poetry has become as liberating a movement in writing and letters as abstract expressionism has been in the visual ...
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Spanning the period from the modernists through the poets of "Origin" and "The Black Mountain Review," the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, and the New York poets of the Poet's Theatre to the first mapping and performance of a new poetry and poetics from the racial, sexual, aboriginal, and cultural margins of a formerly Eurocentric and chauvinist poetry, "Poet to Publisher" tells the story of how poetry has become as liberating a movement in writing and letters as abstract expressionism has been in the visual arts and jazz has been in music.
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