This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually ambitious of American writers: Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson.
This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, ...
John R. Woznicki Carla Billitteri Paul R. Cappucci
The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen's 1960 seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, an anthology that Marjorie Perloff once called "the fountainhead of radical American poetics." The New American Poetry is referred to in every literary history of post-World War II American poetry. Allen's anthology has reached its fiftieth anniversary, providing a unique time for reflection and reevaluation of this preeminent collection. As we know, Allen's anthology was groundbreaking--it was the first to distribute widely the poetry and...
The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen's 1960 seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, an an...
