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A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser = Mechanic of Splendor /

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Title/Author:	A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser/ by Miriam Nichols.
Reminder of title:	Mechanic of Splendor /
Author:	Nichols, Miriam.
Description:	XX, 304 p. 17 illus., 9 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18327-1
ISBN:	9783030183271

A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser = Mechanic of Splendor /
Nichols, Miriam.

A Literary Biography of Robin BlaserMechanic of Splendor /[electronic resource] :by Miriam Nichols. - 1st ed. 2019. - XX, 304 p. 17 illus., 9 illus. in color.online resource. - Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics,2634-6052. - Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics,.

Chapter 1 Introductions -- Chapter 2 Family Matters -- Chapter 3 Berkeley -- Chapter 4 Boston: The Librarian -- Chapter 5 San Francisco -- Chapter 6 Vancouver in the Sixties: Context as Explanation -- Chapter 7 Cher maître -- Chapter 8 Big Poetry -- Chapter 9 The Irreparable.

A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor is the first major study illustrating Robin Blaser’s significance to North American poetry. The poet Robin Blaser (1925–2009) was an important participant in the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1950s and San Francisco poetry circles of the 1960s. The book illuminates Blaser’s distinctive responses to and relationships 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 post-war New American poetry through his work and engagement with the poetry communities 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 San Francisco—with critical assessments of his major poems through unprecedented archival 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 Vancouver scene; from surrealism to phenomenology; from the New American poetry to the Canadian postmodern; from the homoerotic to high theory. Throughout, Blaser’s voice is heard in the excitement of his early years in Berkeley and Boston and the seriousness of the later years where he was doing most of his living in his work.

ISBN: 9783030183271

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-18327-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

557269
Literature.

LC Class. No.: PN1-6790

Dewey Class. No.: 800

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