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All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s
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All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s Hardback - 2003

by Daniel Kane

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This landmark book, together with its accompanying CD, captures the heady excitement of the vibrant, irreverent poetry scene of New York's Lower East Side in the 1960s. Drawing from personal interviews with many of the participants, from unpublished letters, and from rare sound recordings, Daniel Kane brings together for the first time the people, political events, and poetic roots that coalesced into a highly influential community. From the poetry-reading venues of the early sixties, such as those at the Les Deux Mgots and Le Metro coffeehouses to The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, a vital forum for poets to this day, Kane traces the history of this literary renaissance, showing how it was born from a culture of publicly performed poetry. The Lower East Side in the sixties proved foundational in American verse culture, a defining era for the artistic and political avant-garde.

The voices and works of John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Charles Bernstein, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Kenneth Koch, Bernadette Mayer, Ron Padgett, Denise Levertov, Paul Blackburn, Frank O'Hara, and many others enliven these pages, and the thirty five-track CD includes recordings of several of the poets reading from their work in the sixties and seventies. The Lower East Side's cafes, coffeehouses, and salons brought together poets of various aesthetic sensibilities, including writers associated with the so-called New York School, Beats, Black Mountain, Deep Image, San Francisco Renaissance, Umbra, and others. Kane shows that the significance for literary history of this loosely defined community of poets and artists lies in part in its reclaiming an orally centered poetic tradition, adapted specifically to open up the possibilities for an aesthetically daring, playful poetics and a politics of joy and resistance.

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  • Title All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s
  • Author Daniel Kane
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Har/Com
  • Pages 348
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Publication date 2003-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780520233843 / 0520233840
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.02 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.59 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects American poetry - 20th century - History and, American poetry - New York (State) - New
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002012704
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.540

About the author

Daniel Kane is Lecturer in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. He has had poems, interviews, and essays published in Exquisite Corpse, The Denver Quarterly, TriQuarterly, The Hat, and other publications.

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All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s, Includes 35-track CD of audio...
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All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s, Includes 35-track CD of audio clips of poetry readings

by Daniel Kane

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