Contemp North American Poetry

Race, Jazz, and Innovative Poetics in Midcentury America

Joseph Pizza

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781609389123
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Dissonant Voices uncovers the interracial collaboration at the heart of the postwar avant-garde. While previous studies have explored the writings of individual authors and groups, this work is among the first to trace the cross-cultural debate that inspired and energized midcentury literature in America and beyond. By reading a range of poets in the full context of the friendships and romantic relationships that animated their writing, this study offers new perspectives on key textual moments in the foundation and development of postmodern literature in the U.S. Ultimately, these readings aim to integrate our understanding of New American Poetry, the Black Arts Movement, and the various contemporary approaches to poetry and poetics that have been inspired by their examples.
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface. Integrating Black Mountain
• Introduction. Dissonant Voices: Race, Jazz, and the New American Poetics of Breath
• Chapter One. Form Is Never More Than an Extension of Bird: Projective Verse as Jazz Poetic
• Chapter Two. Outside Boston: Stephen Jonas in the Poetry of John Wieners and Jack Spicer
• Chapter Three. Howling Parker: Jazz, Race, and Beat Performance
• Chapter Four. Broadening the Voice: Amiri Baraka among the Hipsters
• Chapter Five. Spitting Fire: The Black Arts Movement and the New American Poetry
• Conclusion. Out and Gone
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index
• Series List