Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in “New American” Poetry

Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to American poets in the wake of Donald Allen's 'New American Poetry' anthology. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-23 “In Thicket”: Charles Olson, Poetic Career, and the Crisis of Cold War Masculinity....Pages 25-64 “Homosexual Advertising”: Gay Subjectivity, Modernist Form, and Robert Duncan’s The Venice Poem....Pages 65-100 In the Shadow of Nerval: Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, and the Poetics of (Mis)Translation....Pages 101-128 Recovering the Public World: Robin Blaser, Hannah Arendt, and the Discourses of Self and Other in Image-Nations 1–12....Pages 129-157 “Collapsed Aura”: Nathaniel Mackey, Robert Duncan, and the Poetics of Discrepant Subjectivity in “Song of the Andoumboulou”....Pages 159-190 Afterword....Pages 191-205 Back Matter....Pages 207-235 "Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in "New American" Poetry examines the sometimes fraught connections between poets associated with the New American poetry of Donald Allen's anthology and the resulting formal choices these poets made in their work. Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this books suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to the writing that got done, especially at early stages in these poets' careers. "No one listens to poetry," Jack Spicer famously wrote. This book shows how a particular group of poets did listen to each other and what they made of what they heard"--Provided by publisher Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this books suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to American poets in the wake of Donald Allen's "New American Poetry" anthology