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Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde
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ISBN: 0299168441
Author: Rifkin, Libbie
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How much did "making it new" have to do with "making it"? For the four "outsider poets" considered in this book-Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Louis Zukofsky, and Ted Berrigan-the connection was everything. At once a social history of literary ambition in America in the fifties and sixties and a uniquely collective form of literary biography, Career Moves offers an intimate account of the postwar poetry underground.Making the controversial claim that anti-Establishment poets were at least as "careerist" as their mainstream peers, Libbie Rifkin shows how the nature of these poets ambition actually defined postwar avant-garde identity. In doing so, she clarifies the complicated link between the crafting of a literary career and the defining of a literary canon.
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Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde