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Title:Arcana
a Stephen Jonas reader
From: edited by Garrett Caples, Derek Fenner, David Rich, & Joseph Torra
Person: Jonas, Stephen
1921-1970
Verfasser
aut
Caples, Garrett
Fenner, Derek
Rich, David
Torra, Joseph
1972-
1979-
1955-
Sonstige
Main Author: Jonas, Stephen 1921-1970 (Author)
Other Authors: Caples, Garrett 1972- (Editor), Fenner, Derek (Editor), Rich, David 1979- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco City Lights Books [2019]
Subjects:
Abstract:Beginning in the 1950s until his untimely death at age 49, Stephen Jonas (1921-1970) was an influential if underground figure of the New American Poetry. A gay, African-American poet of self-obscured origins, heavily influenced by Ezra Pound and Charles Olson, the Boston-based Jonas was a pioneer of the serial poem and an erudite mentor to such acknowledged masters as Jack Spicer and John Wieners, even as he lived a shadowy existence among drug addicts, thieves, and hustlers--back cover
Item Description:Includes previously uncollected and unpublished work, a section of never-before-seen facsimiles from notebooks, and a generous selection from his innovative serial poem "Exercises for Ear" (1968); with an introduction by Joseph Torra
Physical Description:259 Seiten Faksimiles 24 cm
ISBN:9780872867918
0872867919