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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kinniburgh, Mary Catherine, author.
Imprint:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022] ©2022
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 192 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in print culture and the history of the book Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
Subject:	Olson, Charles, -- 1910-1970 -- Library. Di Prima, Diane -- Library. Lansing, Gerrit -- Library. Lorde, Audre -- Library. Di Prima, Diane. Lansing, Gerrit. Lorde, Audre. Olson, Charles, -- 1910-1970. Private libraries -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Poets, American -- 20th century -- Books and reading. Libraries. Private libraries. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13543615

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ISBN:	9781613769348 1613769342 1613769334 9781613769331 9781625346551 9781625346568
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 28, 2022).
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"--
Other form:	Print version: Kinniburgh, Mary Catherine. Wild intelligence Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022] 9781625346551

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (xi, 192 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781613769348 1613769342 1613769334 9781613769331 9781625346551 9781625346568