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Whitman's Wild Children: Portraits of Twelve Poets

Book; Steerforth Press, 1999

Subjects:

American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, Beat Generation, Cherkovski, Neeli--Friends And Associates, Poets, American--20th Century--Biography, Whitman, Walt--1819-1892--Influence

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...attention. "You know ... Im the poet," Corso repeated. "You have...of you." "Corso ... the Beat Generation," he emphasized...tune, "Hi diddly dee ... a poets life for me." The sun was...in the presence of a famous Beat poet. "I dont know much about poetry...
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet-At-Large

Book by Larry Smith; Southern Illinois University Press, 1983

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Beat Generation--Biography, Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, Poets, American--20th Century--Biography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...pronounced in Ferlinghetti, and this recent personal self-portrait provides a telling comparison with the "beat" and outspoken poet of the 1958 "Autobiography": I am leading a quiet life in Mikes Place every day contemplating my navel. I...
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Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers

Book by Nancy M. Grace, Ronna C. Johnson; University Press of Mississippi, 2004

Subjects:

American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Authors, American--20th Century--Interviews, Beat Generation, Beat Generation--Interviews, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Women Authors, American--Interviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...emergence of women writers in Beat and associated movements. Some...on the Phone (1999). The poets dialogue with Whalen disdains...than by writers and inscribes a poets refusal of any literary affiliation...York Times says Im a Language Poet Are you? Of course not. Are you a Beat Poet? No, Im my own Poet George...
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Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility

Book by David Sterritt; Southern Illinois University Press, 2004

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American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--Film And Video Adaptations, Beat Generation, Kerouac, Jack--1922-1969--Film And Video Adaptations, Mass Media And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Mass Media--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...important part in his intellectual and spiritual life. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg claims that Kerouac was not a dabbler or...Oswald Spengler 4 who in turn influenced Kerouac and other Beat writers. So it is not surprising that Kerouac developed...
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Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film

Book by David Sterritt; Southern Illinois University Press, 1998

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American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Beat Generation, Experimental Films--United States--History And Criticism, Fiction, Literature And Society--United States--History--20th Century, Motion Pictures And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Motion Pictures--United States--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...multitude, the multitude of fishes. -- Beat poet in A Bucket of Blood , directed by...1959 Coffeehouses became an emblem of Beat activity during the '50s, and for...like-minded "nonconformists," the Beat coffeehouse distinguished itself from...

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Journal Articles on: beat poet

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"After All, What Else Is There to Say?" Ed Sanders and the Beat Aesthetic

Journal article by David Herd; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 19, 1999

Subjects:

Beat generation--Literature, Ginsberg, Allen--Influence, Sanders, Ed--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...significantly innovative American poets who had emphasized the...the example that rebel poets not allow themselves...challenge: challenging the poet to a sublime response...straightforward celebration of Beat values but rather a measure...cost of refusing. The Beats refuse, are refused...of an ambitious young poet. Invariably, though...vision that shows the Beat project to be not a momentary...radicalized the quarter the Beats would later make their...
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Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters

Journal article by Oliver Harris; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 46, 2000

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Beat generation--Political aspects, Cold War--Influence, Dissenters--Literature, Ginsberg, Allen--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Kerouac, Jack--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Letter writing--Political aspects, Narration (Rhetoric)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rosenberg, Ethel--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Rosenberg, Julius--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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...etter writing between poets and novelists goes on...meaning it had for the Beats has passed with the historical...the key permutations of Beat correspondence (Ginsberg...sss letter-writing poet-prophets because it...came to matter less as a poet than as "an exemplary...Ginsberg recognized his Beat vision in the candor...that divides the two poets in their respective midcenturies...
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The Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets

Journal article by Meg Clayton, Mac Clayton; Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 49, 2010

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Poetry, Poets

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...her. She loved the old poets, the poets of her youth. Those were...of one another, as any beat poet or angry rapper. She had the soul of a poet. She dealt in the concrete...better than todays new poets? They are the ones who...
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A MELUS Interview: David Hernandez, Chicago's Unofficial Poet Laureate

Journal article by Julie M. Schmid; MELUS, Vol. 25, 2000

Subjects:

American literature--Mexican American authors, Hernandez, David--Interviews, Poets--Interviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...gangs. They knew that I was a poet because I would go hang out...really first appreciated me as a poet were the gang-bangers and...Sounds as influenced by the Beats, the Last Poets, and Afro-Cuban and Afro...influence. Coming to Chicago, the Beat thing and the literary thing...my mother is a very natural poet. To this day, shes amazing...
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The Woman as Political Poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Mid-Century Canon

Journal article by John Timberman Newcomb; Criticism, Vol. 37, 1995

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Feminism--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Millay, Edna St. Vincent--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...satisfied with the effects of a woman poet, who almost ignores or almost resents the intellectual effects of other poets" (79-80). This twinned portrayal...enhanced Ciardis condemnation of the poets ungraceful aging by printing four increasingly...could presumably be generated for any poet as he or she aged. But in Millays case the poets physical condition took on an inordinate...

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Magazine Articles on: beat poet

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Education Beat: Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Gwendolyn Brooks Honored

Magazine article; Black Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 10, February 24, 1994

Subjects:

African Americans, Black literature, Brooks, Gwendolyn, Literature, Poetry, Washington, DC

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

Education Beat: Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Gwendolyn Brooks Honored EDUCATION BEAT: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Gwendolyn Brooks Honored. WASHINGTON, DC -- The highest government honor for distinguished intellectual achievement in the...
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The Poets of Greenwich Village

Magazine article by Fred Stern; World and I, Vol. 26, October 2011

Subjects:

Beat movement--Criticism and interpretation, Greenwich Village, New York, New York--Social aspects, Millay, Edna St. Vincent--Criticism and interpretation, Millay, Edna St. Vincent--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works

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...the 1920s to the 1940s. The Beats dominated the poetry scene...School briefly overlap the Beats and are still more or less active today. The Beat poets lived for the day. Their...with greater society. The Beats created "Happenings," unrehearsed...important followers among the poets, writers and artists of Greenwich...Kahil Gibran, the prophetic poet lived on 10th Street as well...
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Langston Hughes Centennial, 1902-1967: the Beat Goes on

Magazine article by Maryemma Graham; The New Crisis, Vol. 109, January 2002

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Hughes, Langston, Personal profiles, Poetry, Poets

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...Centennial, 1902-1967: the Beat Goes on by Maryemma Graham...Langston Hughes, seven poets gather to pay homage...passionately discussing the late poet. "He made literature...accurate," adds Harlem poet Willie Perdomo. In February...Moore, an Atlanta-based poet and performance artist...of the legendary Last Poets - were among the stars...
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Ginsberg, Kerouac, the Beats and the Hippies

Magazine article by Fred Stern; World and I, Vol. 23, June 2008

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Ginsberg, Allen--Appreciation, Ginsberg, Allen--Works, Howl (Ginsberg, Allen) (Poem)--Appreciation, Kerouac, Jack--Appreciation, Kerouac, Jack--Works, Novelists--Appreciation, Novelists--Works, Poets--Appreciation, Poets--Works

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...Ginsberg died a Buddhist. The Beats influenced the great names of...to mention just a few. The Beats also spawned a full shelf of poets including Gregory Corso, Michael...cast its shadow over the Beat generation and is strongly reflected...many ways an extension of the Beats; they came along just about...
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Its Got a Good Beat and You Can Write to It

Magazine article by Diann Blakely; The Antioch Review, Vol. 58, Summer 2000

Subjects:

Authors--Methods, Authorship--Methods, Literature--Evaluation, Music and literature--Evaluation, Music--Evaluation, Poets--Methods, Writers--Methods

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Its Got a Good Beat and You Can Write...the same way you do poets. But one cant be influenced as a poet by a composer because...as imagining the poet attached to a Discman...empirically what poets know instinctively...images of the boomer poets as they near retirement...songs got a good beat and you can dance...

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Newspaper Articles on: beat poet

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Patten Proves the Beat Does Go on; the Youngest of Liverpool's Beat Poets Has Turned 60. Catherine Jones Chats to Brian Patten about Mellowing, Memoirs and That Mersey Sound

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), April 22, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Patten Proves the Beat Does Go on; the Youngest of Liverpools Beat Poets Has Turned 60. Catherine Jones...THE writing is on the wall for poet Brian Patten. The father of...accessibility of the Liverpool poets struck a chord. The Mersey...quite the head of hair TODAY: Poet Brian Patten is writing a memoir...
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'Rose' Claps to Beat of Poet Hughes

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 16, 2002

Subjects:

Hughes, Langston

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Rose claps to beat of poet Hughes Byline: Guy Taylor...Were Langston Hughes - the poet, who wrote it - still living...die. The rest of the poems beats and themes slip in and out of...in it, clapping along to the beat of Mr. Hughes birthday celebration...
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The Beat Goes on; He Drank with Jim Morrison and Was Buddies with Bob Dylan and Dennis Hopper. Lorne Jackson Talks Inspiration with a Poet Who Influenced a Generation in the Sixties

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 1, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Jackson Talks Inspiration with a Poet Who Influenced a Generation...was one of the original beat poets, who shook up the stale and...1950s. He was one of the five poets to recite poems at the seminal...accepted as the awakening of the Beat Generation. Allen Ginsberg...a rather famous Birmingham poet - Harbornes very own WH Auden...ordinary dreams. Like all the Beats, McClure is majestically capable...
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Music: On the Beat: Robert Nichols

Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), February 20, 2009

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Poets

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Music: On the Beat: Robert Nichols. THIS week I decided...drawer. There are some very fine local poets around these days, whose worthy word...reappears as a middle aged misogynist poet. CLAIRE MORGAN, who I believe is poet in residence at Arc, appears with a ventriloquists...
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Horovitz Joins Race to Be Top Oxford Poet; Londoner's Diary

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 30, 2010

Subjects:

Poetry, Poets

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Horovitz Joins Race to Be Top Oxford Poet; Londoners Diary. NEVER mind...Michael Horovitz, the maverick poet best known for his appearance...limited. Hill is a wonderful lyric poet, whose passion and social commitment...icons: Michael Horovitz and beat poet Allen Ginsberg

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Encyclopedia Articles on: beat poet

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Snyder, Gary

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

SNYDER, GARY 1930 , American poet, b. San Francisco. Associated with the beat generation of the 1950s, he lived (1956 68) in Japan, where he trained as a Zen monk. His poetry, influenced by Zen Buddhism...
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Ginsberg, Allen

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

GINSBERG, ALLEN ginz burg, 1926 97, American poet, b. Paterson, N.J., grad. Columbia, 1949. An outspoken member of the beat generation , Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem attacking American values in the 1950s...
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Rexroth, Kenneth

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

REXROTH, KENNETH 1905 82, American poet, critic, and translator, b. South Bend, Ind. A resident of San Francisco, he was briefly associated with the beat generation , although he disdained their lack of discipline...Poems from the Japanese (1956) and The Orchid Boat: Women Poets of China (with Ling Chung, 1973). He is best known, however...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...initial recognition as part of the beat generation , their individual...most provocative and active poets of the decade was Robert Lowell...which was also written by such poets as Anne Sexton , Sylvia Plath...John Berryman . Accomplished poets with idiosyncratic styles were...shown in the work of feminist poet Adrienne Rich . Meanwhile...
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Brautigan, Richard

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...BRAUTIGAN, RICHARD bro t gan, 1935 84, American novelist and poet, b. Tacoma, Wash. He was a counterculture hero of the 1960s...Americas cultural environment. Influenced by writers of the beat generation , he exhibits a hippie sensibility in his extremely...

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