Description: Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary crises.
Brief description: Ben Hickman is the author of John Ashbery and English Poetry (Edinburgh, 2012) and has published numerous essays on the New York School, the New American Poetry, John Clare and others. He studied at University College, London and currently teaches at the University of Kent.
Review Quotes: I have read no other work that better captures the particular stakes of poetry's politics right now, amidst the new crises and social movements this side of Language Poetry and the dry well of Conceptualism. Hickman's is a call to begin again that should resonate across and reanimate our discussions of poetry.-- "Professor Stephen Collis, Simon Fraser University"