James Sullivan presents a brief history of American poetry broadsides from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. He then explores the extensive use of the broadside during one era, the 1960s, showing how it refigured the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, and others and situating it for specific cultural uses within the social and political struggles of the times. Sullivan's introduction lays out the project's theoretical groundwork in the cultural studies movement and surveys the history of the broadside in North America since the advent of printing.
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"The Politics of Printing Poetry",
By Anne Sheffield (West Hartford, CT United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: On the Walls and in the Streets: American Poetry Broadsides from the 1960s (Paperback)
If you ever wanted to enter the treasure troves of a rare manuscript collection, you can now become an arm chair traveller with James Sullivan's book that explores the "ephemera" of poetry broadsides. He analyzes the role of single-sheet poems, once passed out at rallies, peace marches, and other community events (and now carefully archived as historical documents) as a form of counter culture communication. Studying poems rising from the civil rights movement and war protests, Sullivan examines the social and economic context of these poetry "fliers" by famous and unknown poets, as well as their aesthetic design. He also provides background stories on the production process and collaborations between writers, artists, designers, and printers. Critiquing as well as celebrating this "grass roots" alternative press movement of poetry for the people and by the people, freed from the system of major commercial publishing houses, he authenticates a literary tradition that has otherwise disappeared into wastebaskets and library vaults. Started as a dissertation, this book is both scrupulously researched and highly readable, with excellent illustrations of this genre -- including works by Merwin and Ginsberg. The only book in the field that I've been able to find, it is a must for poets, poetry teachers, lovers of small press, aging hippies, and believers in art's humanitarian role in bringing change.
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In Eugene B. Redmon's comprehensive survey of African American poetry, he calls Dudley Randall's Broadside Press in Detroit "the poetry hub of the late sixties and seventies" for the Black Arts Movement (394-95). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
poetry broadsides, ephemeral broadsides, broadside series, civilian antiwar movement, broadside production, broadside edition, broadside verse, antiwar poetry, other broadsides, fine printing, broadside ballads, private contemplation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Broadside Press, Robert Lowell, White House, Open Page, African American, Vietnam War, Where Is Vietnam, Allen Ginsberg, City Lights, Kral Majales, San Francisco, Black Arts Movement, Courtesy of the University of Illinois, Che Guevara, Jessore Road, United States, Urbana-Champaign Rare Book Room, Collected Poems, Van Vliet, Ballad of Birmingham, Gwendolyn Brooks, Let Us Be Clear, Native American, The Pacification of Columbia New!
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In Eugene B. Redmon's comprehensive survey of African American poetry, he calls Dudley Randall's Broadside Press in Detroit "the poetry hub of the late sixties and seventies" for the Black Arts Movement (394-95). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
poetry broadsides, ephemeral broadsides, broadside series, civilian antiwar movement, broadside production, broadside edition, broadside verse, antiwar poetry, other broadsides, fine printing, broadside ballads, private contemplation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Broadside Press, Robert Lowell, White House, Open Page, African American, Vietnam War, Where Is Vietnam, Allen Ginsberg, City Lights, Kral Majales, San Francisco, Black Arts Movement, Courtesy of the University of Illinois, Che Guevara, Jessore Road, United States, Urbana-Champaign Rare Book Room, Collected Poems, Van Vliet, Ballad of Birmingham, Gwendolyn Brooks, Let Us Be Clear, Native American, The Pacification of Columbia New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- American Poetry (Stratford-Upon-Avon Studies: No. 7) by John R. Brown on 4 pages
- Collected Poems by Louis Ginsberg on 4 pages
- The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project) by Gwendolyn Brooks on 4 pages
- The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History by Norman Mailer on page 96, page 140, and Back Matter
- Revolutionary Letters (Citys) by Diane Di Prima on page 61, page 62, and Back Matter
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