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Autore: Codrescu Andrei <1946-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The poetry lesson [[electronic resource] /] / Andrei Codrescu Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2010
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (125 p.)
Disciplina: 813/.54
Soggetto topico: Poets
Soggetto non controllato: A Coney Island of the Mind
Aldous Huxley
Allen Ginsberg
Amiri Baraka
An Embarrassment of Riches
Anna Akhmatova
Aphorism
Aram Saroyan
Arthur Rimbaud
Aubade
Barney Rosset
Beat Generation
Bei Dao
Bertolt Brecht
Black Man
Blank verse
Boredom
Britney Spears
Cataclysm (Dragonlance)
Charles Bukowski
Che Guevara
Cunt
De Profundis (letter)
Death in Venice
Deathbed
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
English muffin
Ezra Pound
Feral cat
Flapper
French Colonial
French Communist Party
From Beyond the Grave
Futility (poem)
Gabriela Mistral
Gaggle
Gertrude Stein
Gregory Corso
Guerrilla warfare
Guillaume Apollinaire
Heir to the Empire
Hippie
His Family
I Wish (manhwa)
In Another Country
Isadora Duncan
Jack Kerouac
Jacques Maritain
James Merrill
Jan Hus
Jan Kerouac
Jim Morrison
Joan Vollmer
Junkie (novel)
Kitsch
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Libido
Lord Byron
Marilyn Monroe
Max Jacob
McSorley's Old Ale House
Memoir
Mennonite
Mexico City Blues
Milan Kundera
Miroslav Holub
Monomania
Mr
Naked Lunch
Nobel Prize
Olga Rudge
Orgy
Patti Smith
Pheromone
Pocket watch
Poet laureate
Poetry
Pretty Face
Pyramid scheme
Racism
Rant (novel)
Red Mass
Ridicule
Shel Silverstein
Sodomy
Surrealism
Take Shelter
The New York Times Book Review
The Other Hand
The Price of Gold
The Scary Guy
This Country
To This Day
Tristan Tzara
Under the Volcano
Wallace Stevens
War and War
William Saroyan
Young Widow
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- The Poetry Lesson
Sommario/riassunto: "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.
Titolo autorizzato: The poetry lesson  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-93643-3
9786612936432
1-4008-3604-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785281203321
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