Hold-outs : the Los Angeles poetry renaissance, 1948-1992 /

Hold-outs : the Los Angeles poetry renaissance, 1948-1992 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mohr, Bill
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011.
Series:Contemporary North American poetry series.
Subjects:
American poetry > California > Los Angeles > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > In literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: rear projections: marginal communities and the outlaws of the revisionist cano
  • The cartography of dissidence: Los Angeles and literary history on the West Coast
  • Thinking alone in company: L.A. literary magazines during the Cold War
  • I cannot imagine the extent of their aloneness: Venice West and the new American poetry
  • Left-handed blows: beyond baroque and the Los Angeles poetry Renaissance
  • Faultline communities: multiculturalism, stand-up, spoken word, and the maverick avant-garde in Los Angeles
  • Afterword: the subjunctive legacy of the West Coast poetry renaissance.