The Astonishment Tapes - Talks on Poetry and Autobiography With Robin Blaser and Friends

Informationen zum Autor Robin Blaser was a pathbreaking poet and, along with Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, a founding member of the San Francisco Renaissance in poetry. His work has been recognized with Canada's most distinguished literary awards--a Griffin Award for lifetime achievement and the Griffin Poetry Prize for his collected poems. He was also made a member of the Order of Canada for his contribution to the arts. Miriam Nichols is the editor of The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser and The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser . Klappentext This is the edited transcript of revealing autobiographical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser, a founding member of the Berkeley contingent of the San Francisco Renaissance in New American Poetry. In twenty autobiographical audiotapes, Blaser talks about his childhood in Idaho, his time in Berkeley, and his participation in the making of a new kind of poetry. Zusammenfassung This is the edited transcript of revealing autobiographical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser! a founding member of the Berkeley contingent of the San Francisco Renaissance in New American Poetry. In twenty autobiographical audiotapes! Blaser talks about his childhood in Idaho! his time in Berkeley! and his participation in the making of a new kind of poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Blaser, Robin/ Nichols Blaser
• Assisted by: Miriam Nichols (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780817358099
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5809-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic; Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies