Vincent Hiscock

Bio

Vincent Hiscock currently studies and teaches at UC Irvine, where he is making final revisions of his dissertation, Mystic Realism, an inter-arts study of, especially, twentieth-century American poetry and visual art that centrally harnesses ‘idealizing means’ toward social realist ends. He has previously received an MFA in poetry from Cornell and a BA in American Studies and in English at Vassar.

Contributions

Mystic Realism & Collage: Robert Duncan’s THE WAR (1968)

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Robert Duncan’s “Introduction” was the final piece that he composed for his 1968 collection of poetry Bending the Bow. The effort preoccupied him throughout much of 1967, a year in which Duncan, alongside many other creative practitioners, recognized that his art was undergoing a formal crisis that stemmed from an increasing awareness of US atrocities in Vietnam. [1] Duncan’s effort to reckon with this crisis of practice yielded a startling manifesto that, despite being positioned as the...

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