Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and - Softcover

Rifkin, Libbie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299168441 ISBN 13: 9780299168445

Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995

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How much did making it new have to do with making it? For the four outsider poets considered here, the connection was everything. Both a social history of literary ambition in America in the 1950s and 1960s and a collective literary biography, this is an account of postwar poetry underground.

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How much did "making it new" have to do with "making it"? For the four "outsider poets" considered in this book -- Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Louis Zukofsky, and Ted Berrigan -- the connection was everything. At once a social history of literary ambition in America in the fifties and sixties and a uniquely collective form of literary biography, Career Moves offers an intimate account of the postwar poetry underground.

Making the controversial claim that anti-Establishment poets were at least as "careerist" as their mainstream peers, Libbie Rifkin shows how the nature of these poets' ambition actually defined postwar avant-garde identity. In doing so, she clarifies the increasingly complicated, and increasingly important, link between the crafting of a literary career and the defining of a literary canon. A lively and compelling look at the making of four notable poetic careers, Career Moves helps us understand how modern American literature found its distinctive voice after World War II and how the business of writing has become ever more sophisticated.

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• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0299168441
• ISBN 13: 9780299168445
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 182