Neo-Barroco, the Missing Group of the New American Poetry
The New American Poetry anthology delineated “schools” of North American poetry which have become seminal: <i>The Black Mountain School</i> (Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov), the <i>New York School</i> (John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Frank O’Hara), the <i>S...
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| description | The New American Poetry anthology delineated “schools” of North American poetry which have become seminal: <i>The Black Mountain School</i> (Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov), the <i>New York School</i> (John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Frank O’Hara), the <i>San Francisco Renaissance</i> (Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer), and the <i>Beats</i> (Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure). The word seminal is used in a traditional way, from the root: “of seed or semen … full of possibilities”, but here also because the work is dominated by men and the omission of poets like Diane di Prima and Joanne Kyger seems especially egregious now. As compared to the whiteness of academic verse of the time, the New American Poetry was radical and more diverse, but could be seen as quite inadequate in those aspects from a contemporary perspective. Of course culture must always be judged in proper context, including its era and the anthology has had a powerful impact on the poetry of the continent from which it came. This paper posits that The New American Poetry, had it looked even slightly off the shore of North America, could have included the Neo-Barroco school of Latin American poetry. The affinities are almost endless and the limited scope of even the most radical poets of the post-war generation is exposed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8d884e1042f741a78b86c4d3a717e74e2023-11-16T20:51:15ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872022-12-01121510.3390/h12010005Neo-Barroco, the Missing Group of the New American PoetryPaul E. Nelson0Cascadia Poetics Lab, Seattle, WA 98118, USAThe New American Poetry anthology delineated “schools” of North American poetry which have become seminal: <i>The Black Mountain School</i> (Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov), the <i>New York School</i> (John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Frank O’Hara), the <i>San Francisco Renaissance</i> (Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer), and the <i>Beats</i> (Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure). The word seminal is used in a traditional way, from the root: “of seed or semen … full of possibilities”, but here also because the work is dominated by men and the omission of poets like Diane di Prima and Joanne Kyger seems especially egregious now. As compared to the whiteness of academic verse of the time, the New American Poetry was radical and more diverse, but could be seen as quite inadequate in those aspects from a contemporary perspective. Of course culture must always be judged in proper context, including its era and the anthology has had a powerful impact on the poetry of the continent from which it came. This paper posits that The New American Poetry, had it looked even slightly off the shore of North America, could have included the Neo-Barroco school of Latin American poetry. The affinities are almost endless and the limited scope of even the most radical poets of the post-war generation is exposed.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/12/1/5poetryBlack MountainOrganic Poetryimprovisation |
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