Author : Edward Halsey Foster
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781570030147
An experimental school of poetry & its leading proponents.
Author : Jonathan C. Creasy
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811228983
An essential selection of one of the most important twentieth-century creative movements Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it’s hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and experimental. Founded with the mission of creating rounded, complete people by balancing the arts and manual labor within a democratic, nonhierarchical structure, Black Mountain was a crucible of revolutionary literature. Although this artistic haven only existed from 1933 to 1956, Black Mountain helped inspire some of the most radical and significant midcentury American poets. This anthology begins with the well-known Black Mountain Poets—Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov—but also includes the artist Josef Albers and the musician John Cage, as well as the often overlooked women associated with the college, M. C. Richards and Hilda Morley.
Author : Matt Theado
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1949979946
The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes of American Poetry explores correspondences amongst the Black Mountain and Beat Generation writers, two of most well-known and influential groups of poets in the 1950s. The division of writers as Beat or Black Mountain has hindered our understanding of the ways that these poets developed from mutual influences, benefitted from direct relations, and overlapped their boundaries. This collection of academic essays refines and adds context to Beat Studies and Black Mountain Studies by investigating the groups’ intersections and undercurrents. One goal of the book is to deconstruct the Beat and Black Mountain labels in order to reveal the shifting and fluid relationships among the individual poets who developed a revolutionary poetics in the 1950s and beyond. Taken together, these essays clarify the radical experimentation with poetics undertaken by these poets.
Author : Anne Day Dewey
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804756471
Beyond Maximus shows how field poetics influenced the construction of the public voices of five Black Mountain poets (Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, and Ed Dorn) in order to explain their association in the 1950s and 60s as well as their break-up as a result of the political and poetic crises of the Vietnam War era.
Author : Blake Hobby
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2025-02-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1469641151
Founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina, Black Mountain College fostered experimentation and interdisciplinary learning, placing the arts, including poetry, at the heart of its curriculum. As such, the college was home to and served as inspiration for many modern and postmodern American poets. Some of them, including Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Edward Dorn, appeared in Donald Allen's groundbreaking New American Poetry anthology published in 1960, later becoming part of the American poetry canon. However, many from the Black Mountain College school of writers have been overlooked. The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry features over fifty poets selected with an expansive critical lens, including writers not typically seen as poets, such as composer John Cage, architect Buckminster Fuller, and visual artist Josef Albers. Many years in the making, this book paints the clearest picture of the poetry and poets of Black Mountain College yet.
Author : Robert Creeley
Publisher : New York, Scribner
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 1962
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : Edward Dorn
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780822309321
Dorn's high-spirited, crazy-quilt, complex anti-epic is a masterful critique of late twentieth-century capitalism and is one of the great comic poems of American literature. Dorn is one of the few political poets in America; this fantasy about a demigod cowboy, a saloon madam, and a talking horse named Claude Levi-Strauss, who travel the Southwest in search of Howard Hughes, as become a minor classic.
Author : Amiri Baraka
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0826353916
The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity.
Author : Ed Sanders
Publisher : Dispatches Editions
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781949966954
"A Life of Olson & a Sequence of Glyphs is equal parts oracular biography and ocular surfeit, as if Ed Sanders' lines of bios ("life") were translating from a dead language into life his hand-drawn graphia ("to record by lines drawn"). Olson has never ceased calling the poet to see for oneself-and Sanders lets us see Olson for ourselves, through his almost tactile trove of glyphs, documents, and data clusters. This is a method familiar to readers of Sanders' recent illustrated biography of RFK and admirers of classics like 1968"--
Author : Helen Anne Molesworth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300211910
La exposición refleja la historia del Black Mountain College (BMC), fundado en 1933 en Carolina del Norte y concebido como universidad experimental que situaba al arte en el centro de una educación liberal que pretendía educar mejor a los ciudadanos para participar en la sociedad democrática. La educación era interdisciplinaria y concedía gran importancia al debate, la investigación y la experimentación, dedicando la misma atención a las artes visuales –pintura, escultura, dibujo- que a las llamadas artes aplicadas –tejidos, cerámica, orfebrería, así como a la arquitectura, la poesía, la música y la danza.
