From The New American Poetry:
The SF Renaissance:
Robert Duncan
“The Song of the Borderguard”
“An Owl is an Only Bird of Poetry”
“A Poem Beginning with A Line by Pindar”
Jack Spicer
“Imaginary Elegies, I-IV”
Brother Antoninus
“Advent”
“A Canticle to the Waterbirds”
Madeleine Gleason
“Once and Upon”
Philip Lamantia
“Terror Conduction”
“Morning Light Song”
“Still Poem 9”
John Wieners
“A Poem for the Insane”
“A Poem for Trapped Things”
The Beats:
Jack Kerouac
211th Chorus
225th Chorus
Ginsberg
“Howl”
“A Supermarket in
The Buddhists
Philip Whalen
“2 Variations: All About Love”
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Gary Snyder
“Myths & Texts, Part III”
Other important Writers excluded from this anthology:
Journals Assignments
1. Considering the themes of romanticism, spirituality, and political engagement, describe how one of these poems fits (or doesn’t fit) into the broad themes of
2. Do you feel a connection with any of the three themes listed above? Please discuss, using examples from your own work as well as the reading.
Exercises:
1. Write an imitation of one these poems
2. Write a poem describing, in emotional terms, the weather wherever you are during spring break.
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