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Nichols, Miriam A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser Mechanic of Splendor

Offers a new perspective on post-war North and poetics Provides revelations about the relationships between Robert Blaser and other key of the period like , , and Includes archival material, unpublished poetry, and interviews A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor is the first major study illustrating Robin Blaser’s significance to North American poetry. The Robin Blaser (1925–2009) was an important participant in the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1950s and poetry circles of the 1960s. The book illuminates Blaser’s distinctive responses to and relationships Palgrave Macmillan with familiar writers including Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Charles Olson via their correspondence. Blaser contributed to the formation of the serial poem as a dominant mode in 1st ed. 2019, XX, 304 p. 17 1st post-war New American poetry through his work and engagement with the poetry communities illus., 9 illus. in color. edition of the time. Offering a new perspective on a well-known and influential period in American poetry, Miriam Nichols combines the story of Blaser’s life—coming from a mid-western conservative religious upbringing and his coming of age as a gay man in Berkeley, Boston, and Printed book San Francisco—with critical assessments of his major poems through unprecedented archival Hardcover research. This literary biography presents Blaser’s poetry and poetics in the many contexts from which it came, ranging from the Berkeley Renaissance to the scene; from Printed book surrealism to phenomenology; from the New American poetry to the Canadian postmodern; Hardcover from the homoerotic to high theory. Throughout, Blaser’s voice is heard in the excitement of his ISBN 978-3-030-18326-4 early years in Berkeley and Boston and the seriousness of the later years where he was doing £ 27,99 | CHF 39,00 | 32,99 € | most of his living in his work. 36,29 € (A) | 35,30 € (D) Available Order online at springer.com/booksellers Discount group Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH Palgrave Trade (P1) Customer Service Tiergartenstrasse 15-17 Product category 69121 Heidelberg Popular science Germany Series T: +49 (0)6221 345-4301 Modern and Contemporary Poetry and [email protected] Poetics Other renditions Softcover ISBN 978-3-030-18328-8

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