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On the Walls and in the Streets
American Poetry Broadsides from the 1960s
James D. Sullivan
Paper978-0-252-06624-5
$18.00
| Pub Date: | 1997 |
| Pages: | 224 pages |
| Illustrations: | 14 black & white photographs |
"On the Walls and in the Streets is a major contribution to modern print culture. People in a number of fields--cultural studies, history of the book, sociologists interested in material culture, historians--will be interested in this account of broadsides, their production and reception." -- Michael Davidson, author of The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century
The political and racial discontent of the 1960s was manifested in many forms, not the least of which was the poetry broadside--single, unbound printed sheets ranging in quality from mimeographs to fine prints. This first study of the broadside of that time traces how it was used for a variety of purposes by printers, graphic designers, distributors, political organizers, and readers.
James Sullivan presents a brief history of American poetry broadsides from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. He then explores the extensive use of the broadside during one era, the 1960s, showing how it refigured the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, and others and situating it for specific cultural uses within the social and political struggles of the times. Sullivan's introduction lays out the project's theoretical groundwork in the cultural studies movement and surveys the history of the broadside in North America since the advent of printing.
Subjects:
Literature, American / Radical Studies / Cultural Studies / Poetry / Critical Theory / Black Studies / Popular Culture
