Wild Intelligence - M. C. Kinniburgh

Wild Intelligence

Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America
Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2022
University of Massachusetts Press (Verlag)
978-1-62534-655-1 (ISBN)
31,10 inkl. MwSt
Taking up case studies of four poets who began writing during the 1950s and 1960s, M.C. Kinniburgh shows that the postwar American poet’s library should not just be understood according to individual books within their collection but rather as an archival resource that reveals how poets managed knowledge in a growing era of information overload.
Information science was a burgeoning field in the early years of the Cold War, and while public and academic libraries acted as significant sites for the information boom, it is unsurprising that McCarthyism and censorship would shape what they granted readers access to and acquired. Wild Intelligence traces a different history of information management, examining the privately assembled collections of poets and their knowledge-building practices at midcentury.Taking up case studies of four poets who began writing during the 1950s and 1960s, including Charles Olson (1910–1970), Diane di Prima (1934–2020), Gerrit Lansing (1928–2018), and Audre Lorde (1934–1992), M. C. Kinniburgh shows that the postwar American poet's library should not just be understood according to individual books within their collection but rather as an archival resource that reveals how poets managed knowledge in a growing era of information overload. Exploring traditions and systems that had been overlooked, buried, occulted, or censored, these poets sought to recover a sense of history and chart a way forward.

M. C. KINNIBURGH, who completed a PhD at the Graduate Center, CUNY, is rare books and archives associate for Granary Books.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Verlagsort Massachusetts
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 226 mm
Gewicht 266 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10 1-62534-655-7 / 1625346557
ISBN-13 978-1-62534-655-1 / 9781625346551
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