Bowed Some, Chanted a Little - Philip Whalen

Bowed Some, Chanted a Little

Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco Renaissance

Brian Unger (Herausgeber)

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
364 Seiten
2023 | New edition
The University of Alabama Press (Verlag)
978-0-8173-6013-9 (ISBN)
48,55 inkl. MwSt
Presents the literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest.
The literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest

Philip Whalen (1923–2002) authored twenty collections of verse, more than twenty broadsides, two novels, a huge assemblage of autobiographical literary journals, nine or ten experimental prose works, and dozens of critical essays, lectures, commentaries, introductions, prefaces, and interviews. But he came to regard his literary journals as his most important prose legacy.

Whalen’s literary work represents a significant turn in American letters, as he and his closest colleagues immersed themselves in East Asian literature and religion, reinvigorating strikingly new linguistic and aesthetic paths for North American writers and artists. However, until now Whalen’s forty-plus years of journals—sixty small eight-by-six-inch notebooks—have been largely inaccessible, archived in the rare book and manuscript library at the University of California, Berkeley, undigitized and unavailable online. Thus, the publication of a critical scholarly edition of Whalen’s journals and notebooks constitutes an important literary event and an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers, poets, and lay readers who follow twentieth-century North American poetry.

Brian A. Unger is editor of Zen Monster, a literary and arts magazine.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Modern & Contemporary Poetics
Zusatzinfo 18 b&w figures
Verlagsort Alabama
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 279 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8173-6013-1 / 0817360131
ISBN-13 978-0-8173-6013-9 / 9780817360139
Zustand Neuware
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