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200 14$aThe poetry lesson /$fAndrei Codrescu
205   $aCourse Book
210   $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (125 p.)
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327   $tFrontmatter --$tThe Poetry Lesson
330   $a"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall), you blindfold them and lead them by the hand into a labyrinth made from bones. Then you tell them their assignment: 'Find the Grail. You have a New York minute to get it.'"--The Poetry Lesson The Poetry Lesson is a hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a "typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik"--one with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an endless store of entertaining literary anecdotes, reliable or otherwise. Neither a novel nor a memoir but mimicking aspects of each, The Poetry Lesson is pure Andrei Codrescu: irreverent, unconventional, brilliant, and always funny. Codrescu takes readers into the strange classroom and even stranger mind of a poet and English professor on the eve of retirement as he begins to teach his final semester of Intro to Poetry Writing. As he introduces his students to THE TOOLS OF POETRY (a list that includes a goatskin dream notebook, hypnosis, and cable TV) and THE TEN MUSES OF POETRY (mishearing, misunderstanding, mistranslating . . . ), and assigns each of them a tutelary "Ghost-Companion" poet, the teacher recalls wild tales from his coming of age as a poet in the 1960's and 1970's, even as he speculates about the lives and poetic and sexual potential of his twenty-first-century students. From arguing that Allen Ginsberg wasn't actually gay to telling about the time William Burroughs's funeral procession stopped at McDonald's, The Poetry Lesson is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of an inimitable poet, teacher, and storyteller.
606   $aPoets$vHumor
606   $aPoets$vAnecdotes
610   $aA Coney Island of the Mind.
610   $aAldous Huxley.
610   $aAllen Ginsberg.
610   $aAmiri Baraka.
610   $aAn Embarrassment of Riches.
610   $aAnna Akhmatova.
610   $aAphorism.
610   $aAram Saroyan.
610   $aArthur Rimbaud.
610   $aAubade.
610   $aBarney Rosset.
610   $aBeat Generation.
610   $aBei Dao.
610   $aBertolt Brecht.
610   $aBlack Man.
610   $aBlank verse.
610   $aBoredom.
610   $aBritney Spears.
610   $aCataclysm (Dragonlance).
610   $aCharles Bukowski.
610   $aChe Guevara.
610   $aCunt.
610   $aDe Profundis (letter).
610   $aDeath in Venice.
610   $aDeathbed.
610   $aEdgar Allan Poe.
610   $aEmily Dickinson.
610   $aEnglish muffin.
610   $aEzra Pound.
610   $aFeral cat.
610   $aFlapper.
610   $aFrench Colonial.
610   $aFrench Communist Party.
610   $aFrom Beyond the Grave.
610   $aFutility (poem).
610   $aGabriela Mistral.
610   $aGaggle.
610   $aGertrude Stein.
610   $aGregory Corso.
610   $aGuerrilla warfare.
610   $aGuillaume Apollinaire.
610   $aHeir to the Empire.
610   $aHippie.
610   $aHis Family.
610   $aI Wish (manhwa).
610   $aIn Another Country.
610   $aIsadora Duncan.
610   $aJack Kerouac.
610   $aJacques Maritain.
610   $aJames Merrill.
610   $aJan Hus.
610   $aJan Kerouac.
610   $aJim Morrison.
610   $aJoan Vollmer.
610   $aJunkie (novel).
610   $aKitsch.
610   $aLawrence Ferlinghetti.
610   $aLibido.
610   $aLord Byron.
610   $aMarilyn Monroe.
610   $aMax Jacob.
610   $aMcSorley's Old Ale House.
610   $aMemoir.
610   $aMennonite.
610   $aMexico City Blues.
610   $aMilan Kundera.
610   $aMiroslav Holub.
610   $aMonomania.
610   $aMr.
610   $aNaked Lunch.
610   $aNobel Prize.
610   $aOlga Rudge.
610   $aOrgy.
610   $aPatti Smith.
610   $aPheromone.
610   $aPocket watch.
610   $aPoet laureate.
610   $aPoetry.
610   $aPretty Face.
610   $aPyramid scheme.
610   $aRacism.
610   $aRant (novel).
610   $aRed Mass.
610   $aRidicule.
610   $aShel Silverstein.
610   $aSodomy.
610   $aSurrealism.
610   $aTake Shelter.
610   $aThe New York Times Book Review.
610   $aThe Other Hand.
610   $aThe Price of Gold.
610   $aThe Scary Guy.
610   $aThis Country.
610   $aTo This Day.
610   $aTristan Tzara.
610   $aUnder the Volcano.
610   $aWallace Stevens.
610   $aWar and War.
610   $aWilliam Saroyan.
610   $aYoung Widow.
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