"Progressive lit.": Amiri Baraka, Bruce Andrews, and the politics of the lyric "I".(Critical Essay)

From: African American Review | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Lease, Joseph | Copyright information

Bruce Andrews's poetry and criticism have done much to establish the assumptions about dissent that became standard for readers of Language poetry during the seventies and eighties. For many readers, Andrews's position made oppositional poetry in the tradition of Whitman impossible to believe in: Beat poetry, (1) for example, seemed politically unselfconscious. Andrews assumes that the lyric poet's freedom to dissent is only the freedom to say "yes" to the American ideology--indivi...

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