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Author Kinniburgh, Mary Catherine, author.

Title Wild intelligence : poets' libraries and the politics of knowledge in postwar America / M.C. Kinniburgh.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 192 pages).
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Series Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
Bibliography 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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Olson, Charles, 1910-1970 -- Library.
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970.
Di Prima, Diane -- Library.
Di Prima, Diane.
Lansing, Gerrit -- Library.
Lansing, Gerrit.
Lorde, Audre -- Library.
Lorde, Audre.
Private libraries -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Private libraries.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Poets, American -- 20th century -- Books and reading.
Poets, American.
Books and reading.
Libraries.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Kinniburgh, Mary Catherine. Wild intelligence Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022] 9781625346551 (DLC) 2021054599
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