The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry (American Culture, Vol 7)

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The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry (American Culture, Vol 7)
by Maria Damon
from University of Minnesota Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• A Poetic Experience
  Reading Maria Damon's book is a poetic experience in itself. Her style allows the reader to listen to her thought processes, which are always fresh, subtle, and insightful. She plays an important role as an interpreter of Bob Kaufman and other poets who for various reasons find themselves in the margins.

• Fine Prose from a Poet
  The beauty of the Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry is the fact that with fine prose, almost poetic prose, Maria Damon enlightens areas of modern and post modern poetics that are not seen even in esoteric academic circles.
  The construction of the book is of course center left with a feminist bent but it brings new light and new heat to these issues along with placing them in a context that is more akin the Kenner's Pound Era, or Bernstein's Content Dream than the normal... more info

• Good Grief!
  I've read Maria Damon's book and have used it in teaching and as a resource in my own work - and I hardly fall into either academia or a feminism of the type espoused in the other review. I don't even recognize the book from it!

  Needless to say the book is important; it covers, literally, the margins of literary culture, recuperating women, Judaism, and other issues from the so-called vanguard. It's frankly too bad that such recuperation is needed - one only has to look, for example, at the usual... more info

• high-end pc drivel
  The usual preoccupations of the usual feminist critic are somewhat alleviated here by an apparent intelligence that rises somewhat above the usual drivel of the usual feminist critic. Still, these usual preoccupations are here: justice, inclusion, the sainthood of all minorities and women. Save your money. Even when this critic tries to be fair, it's all so much posing, as she attempts to get through the narrow labyrinth of thought permitted to feminists by other feminists. A completely awful book that is... more info

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