{"product_id":"crisis-and-the-us-avant-garde-ben-hickman-9781399567282","title":"Crisis and the US Avant-Garde: Poetry and Real Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrisis and the US Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e charts the energies and tensions of avant-garde poetics and vanguard politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrisis and the US Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary crises, the book connects major twentieth-century poets and movements, including Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka and Language Poetry, with their various moments of political upheaval. Reading poems as attempted interventions in 'turning-points' or 'moments of decision' within American culture, \u003ci\u003eCrisis and the US Avant-Garde \u003c\/i\u003elooks at how poetry seeks to go beyond poetic language, and investigates how experimental American poetry has attempted to responds to imperialism, war, class conflict and capitalism itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKey features: \u003cbr\u003eReassesses the US avant-garde's relation to political events\u003cbr\u003eExplains how we might talk about a 'context' for avant-garde art\u003cbr\u003eProvides detailed readings of major poets, including Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, George Oppen, Amiri Baraka and others\u003cbr\u003eKey reference point for experimental cultural politics today \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBen Hickman is the author of \u003ci\u003eJohn Ashbery and English Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh, 2012) and has published numerous essays on the New York School, the New American Poetry, John Clare and others. He studied at University College, London and currently teaches at the University of Kent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ben Hickman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399567284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399567282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Ben Hickman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801283670271,"sku":"9781399567282","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crisis-and-the-us-avant-garde-ben-hickman-9781399567282","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}