Published 2020-12-01
“…Roughly contemporaneous with Jack Spicer’s “Poetry as Magic” workshop, Charles Olson’s west coast delivery of the Special View of History lectures and Duncan’s staging of Medea at Colchis were Cage’s classes on experimental composition at the New School for Social Research. While the
Fluxus and Happenings movements that emerged from Cage’s New School course rejected many premises Duncan retained as a “derivative poet” both the west and east coast variants of the post-Black Mountain vanguard were working through problems traceable to the institution’s final phase under Olson’s rectorship in 1952-53. …”
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