The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes in American Poetry (Beat Studies Series)

The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes of American Poetry explores correspondences amongst the Black Mountain and Beat Generation writers, two of most well-known and influential groups of poets in the 1950s. The division of writers as Beat or Black Mountain has hindered our understanding of the ways that these poets developed from mutual influences, benefitted from direct relations, and overlapped their boundaries. This collection of academic essays refines and adds context to Beat Studies and Black Mountain Studies by investigating the groups' intersections and undercurrents. One goal of the book is to deconstruct the Beat and Black Mountain labels in order to reveal the shifting and fluid relationships among the individual poets who developed a revolutionary poetics in the 1950s and beyond. Taken together, these essays clarify the radical experimentation with poetics undertaken by these poets. 'Grace's collection contains a range of insightful close readings, astute contextualiz... Publisher description Cover Contents Acknowledgments Introduction I: Interactions 1. Anthology Landmark: Beat, Black Mountain, The New American Poetry 2. “One physical–mental inspiration of thought”: Allen Ginsberg and Black Mountain Poetics 3. “There is a kind of revival you would dig taking place”: William Carlos Williams and the “Beat” Issue of The Black Mountain Review 4. Yugen at the Front II: Themes 5. “to open your ears”: Typing, Time, and the Body in Beat and Black Mountain Poetics 6. “Imaginatively, go trans-ves”: John Wieners and the New American Poetry’s Queerer Measure 7. The Janus-Face of American Rugged Individualism: Edward Dorn’s Gunslinger, the Beat Generation, and Simulacra 8. SANE and Beyond Sane: Poets and the H-bomb, 1958–1960 9. Hybrid Epistolary Poetic Persuasion: The Environmental Preservation Letters of Charles Olson and Diane di Prima 10. A Theory of Organic Reading: Denise Levertov and the New American Poetry III Society 11. “It’s always an adventure”: Verbal and Visual Collaborations in the Beat and Black Mountain Circles 12. Towards an Aesthetic of the Demos 13. Robert Creeley, Bebop, and the Aesthetics of Alienation 14. The Pedagogy of Open Form Poetics: Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, and Anne Waldman 15. Outside Inside: The Prison Writing and Teaching of Fielding Dawson Notes Notes on Contributors Index "The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes of American Poetry explores correspondences amongst the Beat Generation and Black Mountain writers, two of most well-known and influential groups of poets in the 1950s. These poets benefited from energetic correspondence with one another"-- Provided by publisher