Davidson, Daniel: culture

Davidson, Daniel: culture

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Krupskaya, paperback

Published: June 21, 2002

Publisher Marketing: Daniel Davidson (1952-1996) emerged from punk music in the1980s as a poet of singular talent and originality. culture was Davidson's own title for his collected books, a poetical critique of productivised social relations. One question was foremost in his mind: just how far can experimental poetry be construed as direct political action? This book is the first collection of all the culture poetry. Politics for Dan Davidson was a site-specific performance art...This book is his masterpiece--Benjamin Friedlander. He approached the book almost more like a method actor than a poet--the book for him being more of an event or conceptual art project in many ways than `pure poetry'--Gary Sullivan.