Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-gardeUniv of Wisconsin Press, 2000 - 172 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
CHAPTER | 10 |
Articulating Institutions | 17 |
Permar ent Revolution and the Construction of the Contemporary | 32 |
Maximus Epic Exclusions | 38 |
The Correspondence | 44 |
Ethnography Amateurism Ethics | 58 |
Creeley and The Business | 66 |
CHAPTER 3 | 73 |
The Texas Archive | 102 |
Ted Berrigans | 108 |
Assembling Vocation | 115 |
Editorship andas Authorship | 128 |
CONCLUSION | 136 |
A Contemporary Career | 142 |
Notes | 149 |
Works Cited | 161 |