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Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives striking new portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Drawing from newly released psychiatric reports on Ginsberg, from interviews with his psychiatrist, Dr. Philip Hicks, and from the poet's journals, American Scream shows how Howl brought Ginsberg and the world out of the closet of a repressive society. It also gives the first full accounting of the literary figures-Eliot, Rimbaud, and Whitman-who influenced Howl, definitively placing it in the tradition of twentieth-century American poetry for the first time. As he follows the genesis and the evolution of Howl, Jonah Raskin constructs a vivid picture of a poet and an era. He illuminates the development of Beat poetry in New York and San Francisco in the 1950s--focusing on historic occasions such as the first reading of Howl at Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955 and the obscenity trial over the poem's publication. He looks closely at Ginsberg's life, including his relationships with his parents, friends, and mentors, while he was writing the poem and uses this material to illuminate the themes of madness, nakedness, and secrecy that pervade Howl.A captivating look at the cultural climate of the Cold War and at a great American poet, American Scream finally tells the full story of Howl-a rousing manifesto for a generation and a classic of twentieth-century literature.

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From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry todayIn A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to grand statements and hollow gestures. Questioning both the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, he offers sparkling new insights about poetry and an array of favorite poets.Based on Armitage’s public lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry, A Vertical Art illuminates poets as varied as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, A. R. Ammons, and Claudia Rankine. The chapters are often delightfully sassy in their treatment, as in “Like, Elizabeth Bishop,” in which Armitage dissects—and tallies—the poet’s predilection for similes. He discusses Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, poetic lists, poetry and the underworld, and the dilemmas of translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Armitage also pulls back the curtain on the unromantic realities of making a living as a contemporary poet, and ends the book with his own list of “Ninety-Five Theses” on the principles and practice of poetry.An appealingly personal book that explores the volatile and disputed definitions of poetry from the viewpoint of a practicing writer and dedicated reader, A Vertical Art makes an insightful and entertaining case for the power and potential of poetry today.

English poetry. --- A Little Help. --- A Song to David. --- A. E. Housman. --- Adage. --- Allen Ginsberg. --- Anna Akhmatova. --- Apathy. --- Barry Hines. --- Blank verse. --- Bob and wheel. --- Book. --- Cleanness. --- Conceit. --- Confessional writing. --- Creative writing. --- Cymbeline. --- Dark Night of the Soul. --- Death of a Naturalist. --- Diary. --- Dramatic monologue. --- Dream vision. --- Edgar Allan Poe. --- Edward Hirsch. --- Elizabeth Bishop. --- Erica Jong. --- Erudition. --- Essay. --- Excursus. --- Extended metaphor. --- Fart. --- Fear of Flying (novel). --- Fuck. --- Goblin Market. --- Hilary Mantel. --- How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. --- Howl and Other Poems. --- Hyperbole. --- Imagism. --- In Parenthesis. --- Incorruptibility. --- J. R. R. Tolkien. --- Jargon. --- John Wain. --- Kazuo Ishiguro. --- Kenneth Koch. --- Leonard Cohen. --- Libido. --- Literary fiction. --- Lord Alfred Douglas. --- Lyrical Ballads. --- Man of the People. --- Maurice Riordan. --- Melodrama. --- Mutability (poem). --- Narcissism. --- Necromancy. --- Of Mice and Men. --- Orwellian. --- Pararhyme. --- Pen name. --- Peter Reading. --- Philip Larkin. --- Phrenology. --- Poetic diction. --- Poetry. --- Pun. --- R. S. Thomas. --- Ray Bradbury. --- Rhyme. --- Robert Burns. --- Robert Conquest. --- Robert Frost. --- Romanticism. --- Round Table. --- Sayre's law. --- Self-help book. --- Sensationalism. --- Simile. --- Skunk Hour. --- Sonnet 23. --- Ted Hughes. --- The Anthologist. --- The Faerie Queene. --- The Female Eunuch. --- The Grand Budapest Hotel. --- The Squire's Tale. --- Thom Gunn. --- Thomas Nashe. --- To His Coy Mistress. --- W. H. Auden. --- W. S. Graham. --- Walker Evans. --- Wallace Stevens. --- Walter Savage Landor. --- Way Out (TV series). --- Wessex Poems and Other Verses. --- Wilfred Owen. --- William Blake. --- World to come.