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Understanding the Black Mountain Poets Understanding Contemporary American Literature
author
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Foster, Edward Halsey.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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1570030146
print isbn13
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9781570030147
ebook isbn13
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9780585319650
language
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English
subject
American poetry--North Carolina--Black Mountain--History and criticism, Duncan, Robert Edward,--1919- --Criticism and interpretation, Olson, Charles,--1910-1970--Criticism and interpretation, Creeley, Robert,--1926- --Criticism and interpretation, America
publication date
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1995
lcc
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PS266.N8F67 1995eb
ddc
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811/.54099756
subject
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American poetry--North Carolina--Black Mountain--History and criticism, Duncan, Robert Edward,--1919- --Criticism and interpretation, Olson, Charles,--1910-1970--Criticism and interpretation, Creeley, Robert,--1926- --Criticism and interpretation, America
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Understanding the Black Mountain Poets
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Understanding Contemporary American Literature Matthew J. Bruccoli, General Editor
Volumes on
Edward Albee John Barth Donald Barthelme The Beats The Black Mountain Poets Robert Bly Raymond Carver Chicano Literature Contemporary American Drama Contemporary American Science Fiction James Dickey E. L. Doctorow John Gardner George Garrett John Hawkes Joseph Heller John Irving Randall Jarrell William Kennedy Ursula K. Le Guin Denise Levertov Bernard Malamud Carson McCullers Vladimir Nabokov Joyce Carol Oates Cynthia Ozick Walker Percy Katherine Anne Porter Thomas Pynchon Theodore Roethke Philip Roth Mary Lee Settle Isaac Bashevis Singer Gary Snyder William Stafford Anne Tyler Kurt Vonnegut
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Understanding the Black Mountain Poets
by Edward Halsey Foster
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Copyright 1995 University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Foster, Edward Halsey Understanding the Black mountain poets / Edward Halsey Foster. p. cm.(Understanding contemporary American literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: The geography of itCharles Olson, poetry as politics Robert Creely, poetics of solitudeRobert Duncan, aspirations of the word. ISBN 1-57003-014-6 1. American poetryNorth CarolinaBlack MountainHistory and criticism. 2. Duncan, Robert Edward, 1919- Criticism and interpretation. 3. Olson, Charles, 19101970Criticism and interpretation. 4. Creeley, Robert, 1926-Criticism and interpretation. 5. Poetry20th centuryHistory and criticism 6. Black Mountain (N. C.)Intellectual life. I. Title. II. Series. PS266.N8F67 1995 811'.54099756dc20 94186
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To Elaine
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Contents
Editor's Preface
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Preface
xi
Chapter 1 The Geography of It
1
Chapter 2 Charles Olson: Poetry as Politics
25
Chapter 3 Robert Creeley: Poetics of Solitude
81
Chapter 4 Robert Duncan: Aspirations of the Word
122
Select Bibliography
167
Index
193
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Editor's Preface
The volumes of Understanding Contemporary American Literature have been planned as guides or companions for students as well as good nonacademic readers. The editor and publisher perceive a need for these volumes because much of the influential contemporary literature makes special demands. Uninitiated readers encounter difficulty in approaching works that depart from the traditional forms and techniques of prose and poetry. Literature relies on conventions, but the conventions keep evolving; new writers form their own conventionswhich in time may become familiar. Put simply, UCAL provides instruction in how to read certain contemporary writersidentifying and explicating their material, themes, use of language, point of view, structures, symbolism, and responses to experience.
The word understanding in the titles was deliberately chosen. Many willing readers lack an adequate understanding of how contemporary literature works; that is, what the author is attempting to express and the means by which it is conveyed. Although the criticism and analysis in the series have been aimed at a level of general accessibility, these introductory volumes are meant to be applied in conjunction with the works they cover. They do not provide a substitute for the works and authors they introduce, but rather prepare the reader for more profitable literary experiences.
M. J. B.
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Preface
Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and other poets associated with the Black Mountain school of poetry have been the subjects of much critical and scholarly attention in the past twenty-five years. Substantial biographies of Duncan and Olson and major studies by distinguished writers such as Paul Christensen, Sherman Paul, and Nathaniel Mackey have been published. George Butterick, Richard Blevins, and Robert Bertholf have provided reliable texts; Olson's
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