Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to American poets in the wake of Donald Allen's 'New American Poetry' anthology.

Autorentext
ANDREW MOSSIN is a nationally published poet and critic and is a faculty member at the Princeton Writing Seminar, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction 'In Thicket': Charles Olson, Poetic Career, and the Crisis of Cold War Masculinity 'Homosexual Advertising': Gay Subjectivity, Modernist Form, and Robert Duncan's The Venice Poem In the Shadow of Nerval: Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser and the Poetics of (Mis)Translation Recovering the Public World: Robin Blaser, Hannah Arendt, and the Discourses of Self and Other in Image-Nations 'Collapsed Aura': Nathaniel Mackey, Robert Duncan, and the Poetics of Discrepant Subjectivity in 'Song of the Andoumboulou' Afterword: Towards a Poetics of Mutual Understanding