Author: Gregory CorsoPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200264
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso.
Elegiac Feelings American
Author: Gregory CorsoPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200264
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso.
Elegiac Feelings American: Poetry
Author: Gregory CorsoPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811225666
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso. Gregory Corso's collection of poems contains works of major proportions. The title poem is a tribute to Jack Kerouac, fusing a memorial to the poet's dead friend with a bitter lament for the present state of America. The second major work, "The Geometric Poem," published previously in a limited edition by Fernanda Pivano in Italy, is a complex visionary restatement of themes from ancient Egyptian religion. Reproduced in facsimile from Corso's handwritten sheets, his marginal decorations, drawings and glyphs are included. The balance of the book is drawn from his shorter poems. Corso's reputation as a leading poet and co-founder of the Beat movement is clearly upheld in these poems. His instinct for integrated lyrical statement, his special contribution to Beat poetry, is as strong as ever; his sense of humor and sexuality have not diminished. But he has added a wider-ranging moral urgency and a new depth of humane solicitude that hold even his strangest visions close to the heart of contemporary feeling.
The Happy Birthday of Death
Author: Gregory CorsoPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200271
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Feeling as a Foreign Language
Author: Alice FultonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In Feeling as a Foreign Language, Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they go unnamed. Fulton contemplates topics ranging from the intricacies of a rare genetic syndrome to fractals from the aesthetics of complexity theory to the need for "cultural incorrectness." Along the way, she falls in love with an outrageous 17th century poet, argues for a Dickinsonian tradition in American letters, and calls for a courageous poetics of inconvenient knowledge.
Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit
Author: Gregory CorsoPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Corso, Herald of Autoc. Spirit. Poetry heralding "the ivory applecart of tyrannical values"
Elegy
Author: Mary Jo BangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A collection of poems written by Mary Jo Bang in the year following the death of her son.
All-American Poem
Author: Matthew DickmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
All American Poem embraces the ecstatic nature of our daily lives. Introduction by Tony Hoagland.
Recollections of My Life as a Woman
Author: Diane di PrimaPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140231587
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at a time when this was unheard of. Vividly chronicling the intense, creative cauldron of those years, she recounts her revolutionary relationships and sexuality, and how her experimentation led her to define herself as a woman. What emerges is a fascinating narrative about the courage and triumph of the imagination, and how one woman discovered her role in the world.
An Accidental Autobiography
Author: Gregory CorsoPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215350
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
He left (or was left by) a number of girlfriends and he fathered five children along the way. He was apt to raise a bit of a ruckus at poetry readings and other public events. No one could be sure what he might do next except that he would write poetry and get published and that it would be widely read.".
Appalachian Elegy
Author: Bell HooksPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813136695
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
A collection of poems centered around life in Appalachia addresses topics ranging from the marginalization of the region's people to the environmental degradation it has endured throughout history.