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The early 1960s to the mid-1970s was one of the most turbulent periods in American history. The U.S. military was engaged in its longest, costliest overseas conflict, while the home front was torn apart by riots, protests, and social activism. In the midst of these upheavals, an underground and countercultural press emerged, giving activists an extraordinary forum for a range of imaginative expressions. Poetry held a prominent place in this alternative media. The poem was widely viewed by activists as an inherently anti-establishment form of free expression, and poets were often in the vanguards of political activism.
Hearts and Minds is the first book-length study of the poems of the Black Liberation, Women's Liberation, and GI Resistance movements during the Vietnam era. Drawing on recent cultural and literary theories, Bibby investigates the significance of images, tropes, and symbols of human bodies in activist poetry. Many key political slogans of the period--"black is beautiful," "off our backs"--foreground the body. Bibby demonstrates that figurations of bodies marked important sites of social and political struggle.
Although poetry played such an important role in Vietnam-era activism, literary criticism has largely ignored most of this literature. Bibby recuperates the cultural-historical importance of Vietnam-era activist poetry, highlighting both its relevant contexts and revealing how it engaged political and social struggles that continue to motivate contemporary history. Arguing for the need to read cultural history through these "underground" texts, Hearts and Minds offers new grounds for understanding the recent history of American poetry and the role poetry has played as a medium of imaginative political expression.
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Bibby (Shippensburg Univ.) defines 1965-75 as "the Vietnam Era" in American literary history, and he examines the ways in which the human body is "figured" in the black liberation, women's liberation, and GI resistance poetry of that period. Bibby shows how the body is treated as the site of a political struggle focused on self-representation and identity. He offers a clear discussion of the ways in which the three movements borrowed much of their imagery and rhetoric from the National Liberation Front, and how they articulate a broadly similar cultural critique. Bibby is less persuasive when he claims that these activist poems, many of which are out of print, define the American poetry of that period and have been ignored because of the literary establishment's new critical bias. He never mentions John Balaban's After Our War (CH, Apr'75) winning the Lamont Prize, and his arbitrary cutoff of 1975 excludes the critically acclaimed Vietnam poems of Bruce Weigl, Yusef Komunyakaa, and others. Bibby is at his best on the role played by poetry in the oppositional politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s, but he writes as if all of these poems are equal in terms of literary quality, when that is plainly not the case. Undergraduate collections. G. Grieve-Carlson Lebanon Valley College