The Poetry of Disturbance

The Discomforts of Postwar American Poetry

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David Bergman

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Series:

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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In The Poetry of Disturbance, David Bergman argues that post-war poetry underwent a significant if subtle shift in emphasis, moving from the modernist concern with the poem as a visual text to one that was chiefly oral in nature. The resulting change was disturbing, especially for those brought up on the principles of high modernism. This new stress on orality implied a shift in the economy of the poem, away from the austerity of language advocated by Pound and Eliot to a style that conveyed freedom, expansiveness, and an innovative directness.

Author Biography:

David Bergman is Professor of English at Towson University and the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature and The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture. He is also the editor of John Ashbery's Reported Sightings and The Violet Quill Reader. Bergman has won the Lambda Literary Prize for Men on Men 2000 and the George Elliston Poetry Prize for Cracking the Code, the first of four books of poetry. His essays have appeared in American Literary History, American Literature, and Raritan.

Release date Australia

June 30th, 2015

Author

David Bergman

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

189

Series

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Dimensions

159x235x14

ISBN-13

9781107086685

Product ID

22962891

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