ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Dr. David Lavery Summer 2015 Poets of the 1960s

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s A. R. Ammons ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s W. H. Auden ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Maya Angelou ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Amiri Baraka ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Pulitzer Prize Winner: Dream Songs (Farrar) John Berryman ( ) National Book Award Winner: 1969—His Toy, His Dream, His Rest by John Berryman

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Elizabeth Bishop ( ) National Book Award Winner: 1970—The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Robert Bly (1926- ) National Book Award Winner: 1968—The Light Around the Body by Robert Bly

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Charles Bukowski ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s James Dickey ( ) National Book Award Winner: 1966—Buckdancer's Choice: Poems by James Dickey

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Pulitzer Prize Winner: 1962 Poems (Yale Univ. Press) Alan Dugan ( ) National Book Award Winner: 1962—Poems by Alan Dugan

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Pulitzer Prize Winner: 1966 Selected Poems (New Directions) Richard Eberhardt ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919- )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Allen Ginsberg ( )

Michael McClure Gary Snyder Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac

Allen Ginsberg, Howl (1955) I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated, who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from the academies for crazy &

Allen Ginsberg, Howl (1955) publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull, who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall, who got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York, who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares,...

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Robert Hayden ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Pulitzer Prize Winners: 1968 The Hard Hours (Atheneum) Anthony Hecht ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Richard Hugo ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Pulitzer Prize Winners: 1970 Untitled Subjects (Atheneum) Richard Howard (1929- )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Ted Hughes ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Randall Jarrell ( ) National Book Award Winner: 1961—The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Randall Jarrell

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Donald Justice (1925- )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Jack Kerouac ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Galway Kinnell ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Kenneth Koch ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Stanley Kunitz ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Denise Levertov ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Philip Levine ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Robert Lowell ( ) National Book Award Winner: 1960—Life Studies by Robert Lowell

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Pulitzer Prize Winner: 1961 Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades (Viking) Phyllis McGinley ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s James Merrill ( ) National Book Award Winner: 1967—Nights and Days by James Merrill

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Howard Moss ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Howard Nemerov ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Charles Olson ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Pulitzer Prize Winner: 1969 Of Being Numerous (New Directions) George Oppen ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Dorothy Parker ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s John Crowe Ransom ( ) National Book Award Winner: 1964—Selected Poems by John Crowe Ransom

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Theodore Roethke ( ) National Book Award Winner: 1965—The Far Field by Theodore Roethke

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Pulitzer Prize Winner: 1967 Live or Die (Houghton) Anne Sexton ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Karl Shapiro ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Pulitzer Prize Winner: 1964 At The End Of The Open Road (Wesleyan Univ. Press) Louis Simpson ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Pulitzer Prize Winner: 1960 Heart's Needle (Knopf) W. D. Snodgrass ( ) Dr. Kostkowska

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Gary Snyder (1930- )

Jack Kerouac’s fictional Gary Snyder: Japhy Ryder in The Dharma Bums

I am setting the Way Back Machine for A much publicized event at the University of Florida would bring some major figures from the Beat Movement--Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure--to campus to honor the great ecologist (and U of F faculty member) Howard T. Odum. It was a fascinating week. I was teaching U of F's first-ever course on Native American Literature, and Snyder, who had made himself available for classroom visits, came to talk to my students. It was a wonderful 50 minutes, and Snyder struck me, as he had when I first saw him in Saint Cloud, Minnesota three years before, as just about the most fully- actualized human being I had ever met. (I should note that this was my LSD period, and I was attentive to such things.) 20th Century American Literature Fall 2012 | Dr. Lavery

But the highlight of the week was a poetry reading to be held in a natural amphitheater around a small pond in the heart of the campus. For events such as these, a platform/stage was laid across the water, and Snyder, McClure, and Ginsberg would read from a podium placed upon it to the assembled multitude. A crowd of several hundred filled the outdoor theatre-in-the- round. (A couple of years later I remember hearing Norman Mailer and Hunter Thompson--who pleaded with the crowd to bring him any good drugs they had--read in the same location.) 20th Century American Literature Fall 2012 | Dr. Lavery

The reading would have been memorable in its own right (Snyder is the greatest reader of his own poetry I have ever heard in person)--even without the heckler. Wandering through the audience a very, very drunk guy in his twenties continued to harangue the poets on the pond. It seemed he wanted to be included on the program-- wanted to read his poetry.

Finally, Snyder, who was acting as MC for the evening, took the mike and, in an effort to quiet the heckler (where was security?) offered to let him read one poem if that would shut him up. He accepted the offer and made an anything-but-straight-line for the stage over the pond. The aspiring poet took the podium and pulled a large manuscript of his poetry out of his backpack (the size of the tome brought a moan from the audience) and threw it on podium. As he announced to the hostile crowd "I want to read you my first poem, "Getting a J%*," he leaned forward, seeking to steady himself, on the podium, and it tumbled, the manuscript with it, into the pond.

With barely a moment's hesitation, Gary Snyder, in what seems now over thirty years later a surreal moment, leaped down into the shallow pond and retrieved the manuscript. Soon after security arrived and hauled the drunk off, and the reading commenced without further incident.

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s William Stafford ( ) National Book Award Winner: 1963—Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Mark Strand ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s May Swenson ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Diane Wakoski (1937- )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Robert Penn Warren ( )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Richard Wilbur (1921- )

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s Pulitzer Prize Winner: 1963 Pictures from Brueghel (New Directions) William Carlos Williams ( )

William Carlos Williams, “This is Just to Say” I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably Saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” so much depends upon a red wheel Barrow glazed with rain Water beside the white chickens.

ENGL 6480/7480, Studies in Contemporary Literature: Mad Men and the Sixties Poets of the 1960s James Wright ( )

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