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A Literary Biography of Robin BlaserIntroductions

A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Introductions [This chapter introduces the reader to Robin Blaser (1925–2009) and to the literary contexts that define his life and work. Blaser came to his calling as a poet in postwar Berkeley, California, where he met Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer at the university. As he developed his art, he began to join a generation of poets retrospectively called the New Americans—particularly those gathered in Boston (John Wieners, Ed Marshall, Steve Jonas) and Black Mountain College (Charles Olson, Robert Creeley)—in the creation of a poetry “post the modern.” Blaser’s major themes include an articulation of the sacred in the secular and a homoerotics of poetic creativity; his writing practice is based on the serial poem (the lifelong poem always to be continued) and the poem as public space (a collage of voices).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-18326-4
Pages
1 –9
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-18327-1_1
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[This chapter introduces the reader to Robin Blaser (1925–2009) and to the literary contexts that define his life and work. Blaser came to his calling as a poet in postwar Berkeley, California, where he met Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer at the university. As he developed his art, he began to join a generation of poets retrospectively called the New Americans—particularly those gathered in Boston (John Wieners, Ed Marshall, Steve Jonas) and Black Mountain College (Charles Olson, Robert Creeley)—in the creation of a poetry “post the modern.” Blaser’s major themes include an articulation of the sacred in the secular and a homoerotics of poetic creativity; his writing practice is based on the serial poem (the lifelong poem always to be continued) and the poem as public space (a collage of voices).]

Published: Aug 24, 2019

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