Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a descriptive poem comparing two different, distinct pairs of people who cross paths with one another on the road. One is a pair of garbage men and the other is an elegant couple, two duos from completely different worlds coming together as equals on the roads of California. Ferlinghetti notes all differences and similarities between the two odds from the brand of car to the length of two of the men’s…

implications of shifting uses of form that occurred over a period of one hundred years. Poems such as William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow”, e.e. cummings’ “my sweet old etcetera”, Dereck Walcott’s “Parang”, bpNichol’s “Blues”, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti “Modern Poetry is Prose (But it is Saying Plenty)”, exemplify the multiple shifts that characterized the evolution of poetry throughout the 1900s. These authors use form as a means of embedding meaning within the text through the…

Shortly after, poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti got in contact with Ginsberg, and published Howl in 1956 (The Howl Obscenity Trial). However, quickly following the release, Howl was thought to be too obscene and lacking social value for it to be considered as a poem with redeeming aspects. As a result, Ferlinghetti and his partner Shigeyosi Murao were arrested and facing obscenity charges (The Howl Obscenity Trial). Therefore…

with “radical potential” and share with us. Submit your post and respond to two others. Assignment 2 Many radical poets are known for their “low subjects”. They writes things nobody want to write about. Allen Ginsburg wrote about sodomy. Lawrence Ferlinghetti writes about underwear. Charles Bukowski wrote about vomit. Rupi Kaur writes about period blood. Write a poem about a “low subject”. Submit your work and write one short critiques to respond one of your…

Allen Ginsberg, along with a few of his close friends, founded the movement that we know today as the Beat Generation. Ginsberg wrote about many topics, including gay rights, the decriminalization of drugs, free speech, and the general perversion of America’s political system. He wrote directly from his experience of being a homosexual man living in a time of challenging the traditional authorities and rules that once governed our lives. Ginsberg never wondered if what he wrote was too raw or…

It is clear to any reader of "Howl" that Allen Ginsberg is upset with the status quo, in fact, one might even borrow Ginsberg own words about how he feels about his “generation” when he states that they, “let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy.” What a spit in the face. As I continued to read Ginsberg’s profanity-laced and prolonged verbal assault I was sure about convinced about one thing; Ginsberg is demanding for his generation to change by beating…

arrested on obscenity charges during a performance in 1965, Graham staged a benefit concert to raise money for their legal fees. The concert was a huge success with a line-up that featured rock, jazz, and poetry acts with performers that included Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, the Fugs, John Handy, and Jefferson Airplane. He organized two more successful benefit concerts and soon began producing regular concerts which included special lighting effects and lively psychedelic concert…

American poet Billy Collins (born 1941) has worked to craft a poetic art that is accessible without being sentimental or crass. Named poet laureate of the United States in 2001, Collins became the public face of American poetry and embarked on an ambitious effort to insert poetry--not the teaching of poetry so much as the raw material of poems themselves--into American secondary schools. His own books have enjoyed a rare combination of popular and critical success, selling tens of thousands of…

Like many of us, Ginsberg did not quite know what he wanted to do or be when he graduated from high school. After graduating from the Paterson Eastside High School in 1943 his father wanted him to be a labor lawyer. “Ginsberg quickly dropped this aspiration and settled into his niche in the university's English Department. Professor Lionel Trilling became his mentor, encouraging Ginsberg to write poetry” (Beat Bios). He went on to Columbia University, it was there that he would meet, Lucien…

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