Author: Kalaidjian, Walter B. [1952 - ]
Title: Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry
Description: New York, Columbia University Press, (1989). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xxii,263 pp, Some light page-edge soil.. Minor rubbing. Small ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. dustwrap ¶ Contentds: Lyricism in the Postwar Epoch; Poetry's Institutional Settings; Two Versions of Lyric Minimalism: James Wright & W.S. Merwin; Poetic Discourse & the American Long Poem: Mapping Historical Breaches: The ' Maximus Poems' of Charles Olson; The Poetics of Errancy: James Merrill's ' The Changing Light at Sandover'; The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry; From Silence to Subversion: Robert Bly's Political Surrealism; Feminism & Representation: Adrienne Rich's Wild Pattern; The Word from " Warpland": Gwendolyn Brooks' Afro-American Aesthetic.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, American Literature, Poetry, Social History, Sociology, United States, , ,