Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0018
L. S. Curtis
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0022
Deborah R. Geis
The essay investigates the influence of Beat performance poetry on the contemporary slam poetry movement, which includes many participants who openly acknowledge Beat antecedents for the social justice content of their poetry. The essay focuses on the Beat performance poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, and Anne Waldman, and discusses at length the ways in which the author teaches Beat literature as well as performance poetry.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0006
Rob Johnson, Roberto Casas
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0008
Eric Keenaghan
Keenaghan discusses how in his upper-level literature course he pairs Beat and Black Mountain writers, introducing students to the genesis of open form poetics. The essay features a brief history of mid-twentieth-century cultural politics and presents a close of reading Diane di Prima’s “The Practice of Magical Evocation” as open form poetics.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0017
Jimmy Fazzino
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0011
Tony Trigilio
The essay reports on a three-stage method blending creative writing with critical literary analysis to teach Allen Ginsberg’s “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” revealing what the author, Tony Trigilio call Ginsberg’s “hybrid, techno-human voice,” created through what Ginsberg himself called “auto poesy,” a spontaneous, audio recorder-driven technique fused with Buddhist practices.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0016
R. Quinn
The essay presents a comprehensive overview of Diane di Prima’s life work as reflecting her Italian American heritage. The essay links di Prima’s multicultural heritage to other Beat texts and includes numerous examples of how she uses di Prima’s work to teach writing and literature to traditional and non-traditional college students, many of them first generation.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0010
M. Carden
This essay investigates the form and content of Joyce Johnson’s Minor Characters and Joanne Kyger’s The Japan and India Journals, discussing their choices of personally satisfying writing practices—Kyger’s radical, sardonic journal writing and Johnson’s subversion of the traditional female-authored memoir. The essay includes numerous examples of classroom exercises to teaching the literary significance of journal and memoir writing.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-23DOI: 10.1002/9781119671688.app3
Imagine that you have an hour to introduce and explain the topic of “The Beat Generation in American Culture” on a radio program. Your audience is educated twenty-somethings who may be somewhat familiar with American literature but don’t know much about the Beat Generation. Your task is to explain how you would want to cover this topic. Write on each of the following sections....
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Pub Date : 2020-02-29DOI: 10.1017/9781316817179.004
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