Dark End Of The Street – Margins in American Vanguard Poetry Damon Paperback

Dark End of the StreetMargins in American Vanguard Poetry\nAuthor(s): Maria Damon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816619870, 978-0816619870\nSynopsis\nDamon 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.\n\n\""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\n\n\""A workz