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Davidson's The San Francisco Renaissance is as close to a 'definitive' study as I. .His focus on community helps to make sense of the diverse groups in close interaction with one another in that time and place without.

Davidson's The San Francisco Renaissance is as close to a 'definitive' study as I can imagine. Richard Silberg, Poetry Flash. Michael Davidson's book, The San Francisco Renaissance, is long overdue. The scope is wider than the literary movements discussed and superior to books that apply a single theory to heterogeneous texts.

The San Francisco Renaissance book. Born in Oakland, California on December 18, 1944, Michael Davidson attended San Francisco State University and continued his graduate degrees at The State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla.

The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Kerouac, Jack The Dharma Bums, (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1958). Howls, Raps & Roars: Recordings from the San Francisco poetry renaissance (compilation) (Universal Music Group, 1963; Fantasy Records 1993). The Beats and the San Francisco Renaissance Captured April 25, 2005.

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Francisco Renaissance : Poetics and Community at Mid-Century

The San Francisco Renaissance : Poetics and Community at Mid-Century. The San Francisco Renaissance is the first overview of this major American literary movement. Michael Davidson recounts its emergence during the postwar period in the San Francisco Bay area as defined by poets such as Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan and William Everson, and then as it blossomed into the literary excitements associated with the Beat movement and with writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

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The San Francisco Renaissance. Poetics and Community at Mid-Century.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture.

The San Francisco Renaissance. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge University Press.

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Items related to The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community. Though the term "San Francisco Renaissance" is usually associated with the Beat movement, it was in reality a collage of different communities, often at odds with one another, whose agendas were social and political as much as aesthetic.

The San Francisco Renaissance is the first overview of this major American literary movement. Individual chapters are devoted to major writers of the period and to their involvement with social and political change during the Cold War era. Library availability.