A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser Mechanic of Splendor /

• Main Author: Nichols, Miriam (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
• Subjects: Literature.; Poetry.; America-Literatures.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Popular Science in Literature.; Poetry and Poetics.; North American Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor is the first major study illustrating Robin Blaser's significance to North American poetry. The poet Robin Blaser (1925-2009) was an important participant in the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1950s and San Francisco poetry circles of the...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introductions
• Chapter 2 Family Matters
• Chapter 3 Berkeley
• Chapter 4 Boston: The Librarian
• Chapter 5 San Francisco
• Chapter 6 Vancouver in the Sixties: Context as Explanation
• Chapter 7 Cher maître
• Chapter 8 Big Poetry
• Chapter 9 The Irreparable.