Six Poets of the San Francisco Renaissance

Six Poets of the San Francisco Renaissance PDF Author: David Kherdian
Publisher: Fresno, Calif., Giligia P
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Six Poets of the San Francisco Renaissance

Six Poets of the San Francisco Renaissance PDF Author: David Kherdian
Publisher: Fresno, Calif., Giligia P
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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The San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, 1955-1960

The San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, 1955-1960 PDF Author: Warren G. French
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Six San Francisco Poets

Six San Francisco Poets PDF Author: David Kherdian
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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The San Francisco Renaissance

The San Francisco Renaissance PDF Author: Michael Davidson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423045
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The San Francisco Renaissance is the first review of this major American literary movement.

Poet Be Like God

Poet Be Like God PDF Author: Lewis Ellingham
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819553089
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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The first biography of poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965), a key figure in San Francisco’s gay cultural scene and in the development of American avant garde poetries.

American Poets and Poetry [2 volumes]

American Poets and Poetry [2 volumes] PDF Author: Jeffrey Gray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 823

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The ethnically diverse scope, broad chronological coverage, and mix of biographical, critical, historical, political, and cultural entries make this the most useful and exciting poetry reference of its kind for students today. American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal...stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion." Written for high school and undergraduate students, this two-volume encyclopedia covers U.S. poetry from the Colonial era to the present, offering full treatments of hundreds of key poets of the American canon. What sets this reference apart is that it also discusses events, movements, schools, and poetic approaches, placing poets in their social, historical, political, cultural, and critical contexts and showing how their works mirror the eras in which they were written. Readers will learn about surrealism, ekphrastic poetry, pastoral elegy, the Black Mountain poets, and "language" poetry. There are long and rich entries on modernism and postmodernism as well as entries related to the formal and technical dimensions of American poetry. Particular attention is paid to women poets and poets from various ethnic groups. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Natasha Trethewey, and Tracy Smith are featured. The encyclopedia also contains entries on a wide selection of Latino and Native American poets and substantial coverage of the avant-garde and experimental movements and provides sidebars that illuminate key points.

Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet

Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet PDF Author: Willis Barnstone
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809321278
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 340

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With poems selected and translated by one of the preeminent translators of our day, this bilingual collection of 112 sonnets by six Spanish-language masters of the form ranges in time from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries and includes the works of poets from Spanish America as well as poets native to Spain. Willis Barnstone's selection of sonnets and the extensive historical and biographical background he supplies serve as a compelling survey of Spanish-language poetry that should be of interest both to lovers of poetry in general and to scholars of Spanish-language literature in particular. Following an introductory examination of the arrival of the sonnet in Spain and of that nation's poetry up to Francisco de Quevedo, Barnstone takes up his six masters in chronological turn, preceding each with an essay that not only presents the sonneteer under discussion but also continues the carefully delineated history of Spanish-language poetry. Consistently engaging and informative and never dull or pedantic, these essays stand alone as appreciations--in the finest sense of that word--of some of the greatest poets ever to write. It is, however, Barnstone's subtle, musical, clear, and concise translations that form the heart of this collection. As Barnstone himself says, "In many ways all my life has been some kind of preparation for this volume."

The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen

The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen PDF Author: Philip Whalen
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819568595
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 924

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The collected work of a legendary San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poet

San Francisco Beat

San Francisco Beat PDF Author: David Meltzer
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780872863798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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"In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a baker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about the scene then and now, the traditions of poetry, and about anarchism, globalism, Zen, the Bomb, the Kabbalah, and the Internet."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

After Lorca

After Lorca PDF Author: Jack Spicer
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681375419
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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Out of print for decades, this is the legendary American poet's tribute to Federico García Lorca, including translations of the great Spanish poet's work. Jack Spicer was one of the outstanding figures of the mid-twentieth-century San Francisco Renaissance, bent on fashioning a visionary new lyricism. Spicer called his poems “dictations,” and they combine outrageous humor, acid intelligence, brilliant wordplay, and sheer desolation to incandescent effect. “Frankly I was quite surprised when Mr. Spicer asked me to write an introduction to this volume,” writes the dead Federico García Lorca at the start of After Lorca, Spicer’s first book and one that, since it originally appeared in 1957, has exerted a powerful influence on poetry in America and abroad. “It must be made clear at the start that these poems are not translations,” Lorca continues. “In even the most literal of them Mr. Spicer seems to derive pleasure in inserting or substituting one or two words which completely change the mood and often the meaning of the poem as I had written it. More often he takes one of my poems and adjoins to half of it another of his own, giving rather the effect of an unwilling centaur. (Modesty forbids me to speculate which end of the animal is mine.) Finally there are an almost equal number of poems that I did not write at all (one supposes that they must be his).” What so puzzles Lorca continues to delight and inspire readers of poetry today.