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Bodies on the line : performance and the sixties poetry reading / by Raphael Allison

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Allison, Raphael, 1970-
Published
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2014]
Physical Description
xvii, 250 pages ; 23 cm.

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Machine generated contents note: 1.The Antinomies of Sixties Reading -- 2.Robert Frost, Live -- 3.Charles Olson's Textual Voice -- 4.The Public and Private Voices of Gwendolyn Brooks -- 5.The Disability Poetics of William Carlos Williams and Larry Eigner.
Summary
"Bodies on the Line offers the first, sustained study of the poetry reading in its most formative period: the 1960s. Raphael Allison closely examines a vast archive of audio recordings of several key postwar American poets to explore the social and literary context of the sixties poetry reading, which is characterized by two vastly differing styles of performance: the humanist and the skeptical strain"--
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9781609383039 (paperback)
1609383036 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-234) and index.
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