In this capacious and challenging book, Maria Damon surveys the poetry and culture of the United States in two distinct but inextricably linked periods. In part 1, "Identity K/not/e/s," she considers the America of the 1950s and early 1960s, when contentious and troubled alliances took shape between different marginalized communities and their respective but overlapping bohemias-Jews, African Americans, the Beats, and gays and lesbians. Using a rich trove of texts and artifacts-ranging from Gertrude Stein's writings about her own Jewishness to transcripts from Lenny Bruce's obscenity trial, Bob Kaufman's Beat poetry-as well as her own stake in the material, Damon plumbs.
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