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1950s American literature
50-100
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alternative information networks
American literary history
American poetry
archival history of poetry
Audre Lorde
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Censored literary works
censorship and literary archives
Censorship in public libraries
Charles Olson
Cold War information culture
Cold War intellectual history
Cold War literary studies
contemporary poets
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Diane di Prima
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experimental archival practices in literature
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Gerrit Lansing
hidden traditions in literature
history of knowledge organization
Independent literary collections
Information science history
intellectual history of poets
knowledge practices in midcentury America
Knowledge suppression in literature
Language_English
Literary censorship in America
literary responses to information overload
marginalized knowledge systems in poetry
McCarthyism and cultural censorship
Midcentury literary history
modern literature
New England
New York City
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Poet's Library
poets and information management
Poets and political activism
poets as curators of knowledge
Poets as historians
Poets Press
poets' private libraries
postwar American intellectual life
Postwar American poetry
postwar literary knowledge systems
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Private book collections
private collections as archives
Private libraries of poets
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Self-education and poetry
softlaunch
The literary underground of the 1950s
Twentieth Century America
Underground libraries
underground literary archives
Product details
- ISBN 9781625346568
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 151g
- Dimensions: 147 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 27 May 2022
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
