Life of crime
documents in the guerrilla war against language poetry
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Author
Publication
2010 - Poltroon Press, Berkeley, CA, California
Language
English
Word Count
36,000 words, Guess
Page Count
144 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100918395267
- ISBN-139780918395269
- OCLC Control Number521946452
- Open LibraryOL44905274M
Classifications
- DDC811.5409
- LCCPS614 .L54 2010
Description
In the late 1970s a group of San Francisco poets set out self-consciously and methodically in an insurrection of the Yahoos to attack the establishment (academic poets like Robert Lowell, William Stafford, Poetry magazine, the Prairie School, &c.) and promote themselves as a new alternative. They had a Stalinist view of the bourgoisie and wanted to eradicate the personality from poetry...The voice of the counter-insurgency was a quick and dirty mimeo magazine called LIFE OF CRIME. Editors Pat Nolan & Steve Lavoie enlisted the best satirists in the world (including Andrei Codrescu and Dave Morice) to vilify this vain claque. Others (Tom Clark, David Benedetti, Alastair Johnston) quickly joined the fray. This book includes the complete text of Life of Crime, Newsletter of the Black Bart Society -- "for those who think poetry is a crime." It is guaranteed to turn the stomach of the most prurient literary necrophile." -- P. [4] of cover.
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