POETRY OF LIBERATION
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Topic: Poetry
Sort Desciption: linked to other schools of poetry as well but are dis-. tinguished by verse fiercely dedicated .... dents to many schools of poetry that emerged during this ...
Content Inside: 2 U N I T 1 5 , P O E T R Y O F L I B E R A T I O N Authors and Works Featured in the Video: Allen Ginsberg, Howl, “A Supermarket in Califor- nia” (poems) Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck,” “Power,” “Transcendental Etude” (poems) Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), “Will They Cry When You’re Gone, You Bet,” “A Poem for Willie Best” (poems); Dutchman (play) Discussed in This Unit: John Ashbery, “And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name,” “Illustration,” “Soonest Mended,” “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” (poems) James Wright, “The Minneapolis Poem,” “A Bless- ing,” “The Journey,” “With the Shell of a Hermit Crab” (poems) Gary Snyder, “Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills. Your Body,” “The Blue Sky,” “Milton by Firelight” (poems) Sylvia Plath, “Daddy,” “Lady Lazarus,” Ariel (poems); The Bell Jar (novel) Audre Lorde, Zami, The Cancer Journals (prose non- fiction); “Coal,” “Black Mother Woman,” “Chain” (poems) Joy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, “Call It Fear,” “White Bear,” “The Flood” (poems) Lorna Dee Cervantes, Emplumada, “Visions of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend, Washington” (poems) Overview Questions I How do these authors broaden or complicate our concept of what it means to be American? What strategies do these authors use to express the predicament of marginalized peoples? How did civil rights and protest movements reshape the notion of what it means to be an American? What connec- tions do you see between the poetry in this unit and the civil rights struggle? I How would you describe the mood or abid- ing intentions of American literature during this period? How does the experience of the Vietnam War affect the poetry of this period? What other social or political forces shaped the poetry of this time? How does feminism influence the poetry of the period? Where do you see the influence of pop- ular culture? I Along with the Ne ...
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