Contextual practice : assemblage and the erotic in postwar poetry and art /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fredman, Stephen, 1948-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]
Subjects:	American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism. Assemblage (Art) > United States > History > 20th century. Erotic poetry, American > History and criticism. Erotic art > United States > History > 20th century. Poetics. Art > Technique. Aesthetics, Modern.

Table of Contents:

Forging a contextual practice : assemblage and erotic poetics
The contextual art of Robert Creeley's interviews
Assemblage as archeology and history : Harry Smith's anthology of American folk music and Charles Reznikoff's testimony
Visionary assemblage : Harry Smith and the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, and Jack Spicer
Surrealism and Kabbalah in Semina culture : Wallace Berman cultivates the erotic in California poetry and art
Before Caesar's gate, Robert Duncan comes to grief : the Vietnam War and the 'unengendered child'
In Robert Duncan's 'anima rebellion,' Denise Levertov meets the goddess Kali
Jerome Rothenberg's symposium of the whole.