IN WHITMAN'S WILD CHILDREN, Neelie Cherkovski looks at eleven contemporary beat poets - Michael McClure, Charles Bukowski, John Wieners, James Broughton, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gregory Corso, Harold Norse, & Lawrence Ferlinghetti - chosen because each, like ...
IN WHITMAN'S WILD CHILDREN, Neelie Cherkovski looks at eleven contemporary beat poets - Michael McClure, Charles Bukowski, John Wieners, James Broughton, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gregory Corso, Harold Norse, & Lawrence Ferlinghetti - chosen because each, like Whitman, has taken "his own road" & had little to do with what was thought acceptable in mainstream American culture during the 1940's & 1950's. "When Whitman wrote 'Song of Myself,'" Cherkovski asserts in his introduction, "he stepped off the map & faced the unknown, absolutely alone. He shook off preconceptions of form & content & allowed intuition to lead him forward." As in his highly acclaimed biography Bukowski: A Life - "... a book for those who want to know how a poet is made. It is sympathetic, scholarly, grindingly real, & excellently written." (The Kansas City Star) - Cherkovski draws on personal encounters & his own reactions to individual poems in order to create biographical portraits that are at once enlightening & full of life. The result is an intimate critical memoir, written to reflect the spirit of Whitman's call for "perfect personal candor," about eleven poets who most influenced Cherkovski's own writing & also defined contemporary American literature.
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