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The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century

The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century

Davidson, Michael

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 35

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 052142304X
ISBN13: 9780521423045
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jun 28 1991
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
Though the term San Francisco Renaissance is usually associated with the Beat movement, it was in reality a collage of different communities, often at odds with one another, whose agendas were social and political as much as aesthetic. These subcommunities provided important contexts for subsequent counterculture developments such as gay liberation, feminism, and the New Left long before those movements attracted widespread public attention. In his study of these various impulses Michael Davidson devotes chapters to central figures such as Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, William Everson, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Jack Spicer. He also examines the important but largely neglected context of women writers in a period dominated by misogynistic views. His final chapter brings things up to date by looking at developments in the Bay Area since the death of Jack Spicer.

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