 | The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Experimental poetry America -- History and criticism; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States; Marginality Social in literat; 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 OC outsiders.OCO 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." |
