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Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) has long been regarded as one of the most significant Holocaust poets. Her conception of language and words as a landscape has been understood by scholars and critics as an exilic ersatz Heimat for the lost German homeland of a displaced poet. This reading, however, is based entirely on her postwar poems. Such an isolated approach to her complex body of work is increasingly historically problematic; it is also at odds with Sachs's generally cyclical poetic process.
In 'The Space of Words', Jennifer Hoyer offers the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's largely unanalyzed prewar poetry and prose, as well as the first analysis that examines structural and thematic ties between the prewar works and the Nobel-Prize-winning postwar poetry. Through close readings of both Sachs's prewar and postwar works, Hoyer reveals a diasporic rather than exilic conception of the landscape of language, a position of constant wandering rather than static longing for return. This diasporic poetics promotes the intellectual and linguistic power of the wanderer and opens new insights into Sachs's essential significance as a Holocaust poet and a twentieth-century German-Jewish writer wary of the link of literary language to geopolitics and the narrative of nations. Jennifer Hoyer is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Arkansas.
Sachs, Nelly --- Zaḳs, Neli --- Zaks, Nelli --- זאקס, נעלי --- זק״ש, נלי --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. --- English studies. --- German studies. --- Holocaust poets. --- Jewish studies. --- Nelly Sachs. --- holocaust. --- language studies. --- language. --- linguistics. --- modern history. --- modern poetry. --- poetry. --- postwar poetry. --- twentieth century. --- world history. --- world war II.
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Robin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940's and 1950's as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene. The Holy Forest, now spanning five decades, is Blaser's highly acclaimed lifelong serial poem. This long-awaited revised and expanded edition includes numerous published volumes of verse, the ongoing "Image-Nation" and "Truth Is Laughter" series, and new work from 1994 to 2004. Blaser's passion for world making draws inspiration from the major poets and philosophers of our time-from friends and peers such as Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Charles Bernstein, and Steve McCaffery to virtual companions in thought such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, among others. This comprehensive compilation of Blaser's prophetic meditations on the histories, theories, emotions, experiments, and counter memories of the late twentieth century will stand as the definitive collection of his unique and luminous poetic oeuvre.
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This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of America's great postwar poets. Lisa Jarnot takes us from Duncan's birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically Theosophist household, to his life in San Francisco as an openly gay man who became an inspirational figure for the many poets and painters who gathered around him. Weaving together "ations from Duncan's notebooks and interviews with those who knew him, Jarnot vividly describes his life on the West Coast and in New York City and his encounters with luminaries such as Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Paul Goodman, Michael McClure, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Charles Olson.
Gay men --- Modernism (Literature) --- Poets, American --- Art and literature --- History --- Duncan, Robert, --- Duncan, Robert Edward, --- Symmes, Robert, --- Duncan, Edward Howard, --- R. D. --- D., R. --- Duncan, Edward Howe, --- Symmes, Robert Edward, --- San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco County (Calif.) --- San Francisco --- San Francisco City & County (Calif.) --- San Francisco City and County (Calif.) --- City & County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- City and County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- Saint Francisco (Calif.) --- Yerba Buena (Calif.) --- Intellectual life --- Duncan, Robert Edward --- Poets [American ] --- 20th century --- Biography --- United States --- 20th century america. --- 20th century lgbt community. --- 20th century literature. --- 20th century poets. --- american poetry. --- american poets. --- books for english majors. --- charles olson. --- coming of age. --- gender studies. --- inspirational biography. --- inspirational poets. --- jack spicer. --- lgbt figures. --- lgbt inspiration. --- lgbt poets. --- life lessons. --- modernism literary criticism. --- poet biography. --- poetry and poets. --- post wwii america. --- postwar literature. --- postwar poetry. --- robert creeley. --- robin blaser. --- san francisco poets. --- san francisco renaissance.
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