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Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle»rank: 142109by: Stephen Fredman, Michael Duncan, Wallace Berman, Cameron
: :The quintessential visual artist of the Beat era, Wallace Berman (1926-1976) remains one of the best kept secrets of the late 20th century. A crucial figure in California's postwar underground, Berman was a catalyst who traveled through many different worlds, transferring ideas and dreams from one circle to the next. His larger community is the subject of Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle, a catalogue to the exhibition organized by the Santa Monica Muesum of Art including previously unexhibited works by 52 artists. Anchoring this publication is Semina, a free-form art and poetry journal that Berman published in nine issues between 1955 and 1964. Although privately made and distributed to a ... |
A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry (Phoenix Poets)»rank: 1288479by: Stephen Fredman
: :The first major Jewish poet in America and a key figure of the Objectivist movement, Charles Reznikoff was a crucial link between the generation of Pound and Williams, and the more radical modernists who followed in their wake. A Menorah for Athena, the first extended treatment of Reznikoff's work, appears at a time of renewed interest in his contribution to American poetry.Stephen Fredman illuminates the relationship of Jewish intellectuals to modernity through a close look at Reznikoff's life and writing. He shows that when we regard the Objectivists as modern Jewish poets, we can see more clearly their distinctiveness as modernists and the reasons for their profound impact upon later poets, such ... |
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Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)»rank: 1287467by: Stephen Fredman
: :Poet's Prose is the first scholarly work devoted exclusively to American prose poetry and has been recognized as a groundbreaking study in contemporary American poetry. Many recent American poets have been writing prose; Fredman has set out to determine why and what it means. Three central works of American poets' prose are discussed in detail: William Carlos Williams' Kora in Hell, Robert Creeley's Presences, and John Ashbery's Three Poems. In these chapters, Fredman both carefully teaches us how to read these difficult works and examines their philosophical seriousness. In a final chapter and a new epilogue, he discusses the newest trends in contemporary poetry, the 'talk poems' of David Antin and the ... |
A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture)»rank: 1082650from: Wiley-Blackwell
: :This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country’s intellectual life more broadly. Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts. Written by prominent specialists in the field. Places the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war; feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy and theory. Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another. New syntheses make the volume of interest to scholars as well as ... |
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The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)»rank: 1082650by: Stephen Fredman
: :Stephen Fredman asserts in his latest work that American poetry is groundless--that each generation of American poets faces the problem of identity anew and discovers for itself fresh meaning. His argument focuses on four pairs--Eliot-Williams, Thoreau-Olson, Emerson-Duncan and Whitman-Creeley--and illustrates how Williams, Olson, Duncan and Creeley are all influenced by these predecessors to some extent but that ultimately their poetry is paradoxically grounded in an essential groundlessness. In order to demonstrate how approaches to groundlessness have persisted over time, Fredman explores the measures taken by these American poets to provide a provisional ground upon which to build their poetry: inventing idiosyncratic traditions, forming poetic communities, engaging in polemical prose, assessing all the ... |
The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)»rank: 1737492by: Stephen Fredman
: :Stephen Fredman asserts in his latest work that American poetry is groundless--that each generation of American poets faces the problem of identity anew and discovers for itself fresh meaning. His argument focuses on four pairs--Eliot-Williams, Thoreau-Olson, Emerson-Duncan and Whitman-Creeley--and illustrates how Williams, Olson, Duncan and Creeley are all influenced by these predecessors to some extent but that ultimately their poetry is paradoxically grounded in an essential groundlessness. In order to demonstrate how approaches to groundlessness have persisted over time, Fredman explores the measures taken by these American poets to provide a provisional ground upon which to build their poetry: inventing idiosyncratic traditions, forming poetic communities, engaging in polemical prose, assessing all the ... |
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Smile, Smile, Smile: Poems»rank: 1445252by: Swami Chidvilasananda
: :This potent collection of inspirational teachings nourishes the heart's need for a higher vision of humanity. |
DARSHAN - Poet-Saints of Maharashtra»rank: 1445252by: DARSHAN
: :At one time in Maharashtra, many many saints gathered. All of them had attained the final stage of realization. Among the you would find every kind of person; kings and paupers, washer, barber, tailor, and gardener all met together in the Name and Delight of God. Herein is a glimpse. |
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Darshan 74 (May 1993) In the Company of Saints, Steady Wisdom»rank: 1445252from: SYDA Foundation
: :In English, 63 Pages |
Darshan, In the Company of the Saints; Joy and Enthusiasm»rank: 1445252by: SYDA Foundation
: :In English, 63 Pages |