Crisis and the US Avant-Garde: Poetry and Real Politics

Crisis and the US Avant-Garde charts the energies and tensions of avant-garde poetics and vanguard politics.
Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary crises, the book connects major twentieth-century poets and movements, including Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka and Language Poetry, with their various moments of politica...