Bodies on the Line: Performance and the Sixties Poetry Reading

by Raphael Allison

Bodies on the Line offers the first sustained study of the poetry reading in its most formative period: the 1960s. Raphael Allison closely examines a vast archive of audio recordings of several key postwar American poets to explore the social and literary context of the sixties poetry reading, which is characterized by contrasting differing styles of performance: the humanist style and the skeptical strain. The humanist style, made mainstream...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609383036
• ISBN13: 9781609383039
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"