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Wild intelligence : poets' libraries and the politics of knowledge in postwar America

Title: Wild intelligence : poets' libraries and the politics of knowledge in postwar America / M.C. Kinniburgh.
Author: Kinniburgh, Mary Catherine
Publication: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]

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xi, 192 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Studies in print culture and the history of the book

Uniform Title

Studies in print culture and the history of the book.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"Biblio. & Library": Charles Olson and the Maud/Olson Library -- "Don't Forget I'm a Librarian": Information, Knowledge, and Understanding with Audre Lorde -- "The Requirements of Our Life Is the Form of Our Art": Diane di Prima's Publishing, Cosmology, and Occult Library -- "On Earth, Particular" : Gerrit Lansing's House and Library.

ISBN

9781625346551
1625346557
9781625346568
1625346565
9781613769331 (canceled/invalid)
9781613769348 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021054599
99991594312

OCLC

on1285121474
1285121474
SCSB-14253333

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Columbia University Libraries