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University of Minnesota Press
- Dark End Of The Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry
- Book
- 1993
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
- Series: American Culture
summary
Damon foregrounds a number of modern American poets work and lives in order to argue that the American avant-garde is located in the experimental literary works of social "outsiders." Discussed is the work of Black/Jewish surrealist street poet Bob Kaufman, Boston-Brahmin Robert Lowell and three teenaged women writing from a South Boston housing project, pre-Stonewall gay poets Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, and Jewish lesbian-in-exile Gertrude Stein. "An engaging and important book. Damon's sophisticated, theoretical approaches to American verse, coupled with her fresh, writerly style in The Dark End of The Street, put her on the forefront of American poetry's next generation of literary criticism." -American Literature "A work of art as well as a work of criticism. Addresses important questions about art and social life, about the margins and the center, and about oppression and suppression." -George Lipsitz
Table of Contents
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- Afterword: Closer than Close
- pp. 236-242
- Bibliography
- pp. 279-292
- Permissions
- pp. 304-305
- About the Author
- p. 306
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816684007
Related ISBN(s)
9780816619870
MARC Record
OCLC
191818159
Pages
328
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No