Del i serien Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics

Imagining Persons

Robert Duncan's Lectures on Charles Olson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Robert Duncan’s nine lectures on Charles Olson, delivered intermittently from 1961 to 1983, explore the modernist literary background and influences of Olson’s influential 1950 essay “Projective Verse.” These transcribed talks pay tribute to Olson and expand our knowledge of Duncan’s vision of modernist writing.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-12-15
Mått160 x 236 x 25 mm
Vikt555 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRecencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
Antal sidor264
FörlagUniversity of New Mexico Press
ISBN9780826358912

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Robert J. Bertholf (1940 - 2016) served as the curator of the Poetry Collection at the University of Buffalo for twenty-five years. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including several about Robert Duncan and his work.Dale M. Smith is an associate professor in Ryerson University's Department of English. He is the author of Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 and Slow Poetry in America.

In these lectures, Duncan explores the meaning and context of Olson's poetry and dynamic presence as poet and innovator, while also providing a broader representation of poetry and thought, ancient and modern, delivered with wit, intelligence, curiosity, and care. Essential reading for anyone interested in . . . the work of two of the most important poets of the postwar period."" - Peter O'Leary, author of Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness