Carmela Ciuraru

Beat Poets Carmela Ciuraru

Jacket Description/Flap: An impassioned audacity distinguishes the thirty writers represented in the rousing anthology of poetry from the great 20th-century countercultural literary movement. In combining art with an unapologetic antiestablishment zeal, the Beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive range, fomenting an artistic revolution. The defining work of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac provides the foundation for this collection, which also features statements on Beat poetics, selections from the alternately ardent, incendiary, and earnest correspondence of Beat Generation writers, and the improvisational verse of such Beat legends as Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Gregory Corso, Denise Levertov, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, Bob Kaufman, and Peter Orlovsky, along with the work of other women writers and the lesser-known poets of this school. Visceral and powerful, infused with an unmediated spiritual and social awareness, "Beat Poets is a rich and varied tribute and--in the populist spirit of the Beats--a vital addition to the libraries of readers everywhere. Biographical Note: Carmela Ciuraru is the editor of the anthology "First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them, " and the former editor of the" Journal of the Poetry Society of America." A graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, she lives in New York City. Table of Contents: "Foreword " "RAY BREMSER (1934-98) From "Poems of Madness ("City Madness") "GREGORY CORSO (1930-2001)"Hello"From "Ode to Coit Tower "From "Transformation & EscapeI Am 25Poets Hitchhiking on the HighwayAway One Year After Reading "In the Clearing" Writ on the Eve of My 32nd BirthdaySecond Night in N. Y. C. After 3 Years "ELISE COWEN (1933-62)""Trust yourself--but not too far" "ROBERT CREELEY (1926- )"Chasing the BirdThe Dishonest MailmenI Know a Man The End The Hill The RainFor Love "DIANE di PRIMA (1934- )"Revolutionary Letter #1Poem in Praise of My Husband (Taos) The Quarrel April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa Poetics "LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (1919- )"#9 ("Truth is not the secret of a few")#13 ("It was a face which darkness could kill") #22 ("crazy to be alive in such a strange world") #39 ("A blockage in the bowel"') "ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-97) From "Howl "Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square" My Alba Song Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo Tears"From "Kaddish A Supermarket in California Sunflower Sutra "From "America "BARBARA GUEST (1923- )"Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher Sunday Evening "LEROI JONES (Amiri Baraka) (1934- )"Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide NoteSex, like desire War Poem Political Poem "LENORE KANDEL (1932- )"Enlightenment Poem Blues for Sister Sally Junk/Angel "BOB KAUFMAN (1925-86)"Benediction West Coast Sounds--1956 FragmentGinsberg (for Allen) Abomunist Manifesto "JACK KEROUAC (1922-69)"Mexican LonelinessHow to MeditateA Sudden Sketch Poem 116Hymn"From "Mexico City Blues "TULI KUPFERBERG (1923- )""I dreamed of a bum seven foot tall" "My muse goosed me" "JOANNE KYGER (1934- )""It is lonely""My father died this spring" May 29 "It's a great day" "PHILIP LAMANTIA (1927- ) From "Hypodermic LightHigh "Man is in pain" "DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-97)"The Gypsy's Window The Flight The Marriage The Marriage (II) Poem from Manhattan "JOANNA McCLURE (1930- )"A Vacancy "MICHAEL McCLURE (1932- )"The Flowers of Politics (I) The Flowers of Politics (II) Mad Sonnet 13 "DAVID MELTZER (1937- )"From the Untitled Epic Poem 6th Raga: For Bob Alexander 15th Raga: For Bela Lugosi "HAROLD NORSE (1916- )"Picasso Visits Braque I Would Not Recommend Love"I Have Always Liked George Gershwin More than Ernest Hemingway" I Have Seen the Light and It Is My MindHotel Nirvana "FRANK O'HARA (1926-66)"Personal Poem Autobiographia Literaria TodayMy Heart Avenue ANow That I Am in Madrid and Can Think Having a Coke With You "PETER ORLOVSKY (1933- )"Peter's Jealous of Allen "Writing poems is a Saintly thing"Some One Liked Me When I Was TwelveCollaboration: Letter to Charlie Chaplin "MARIE PONSOT (1921- )"Take My Disproportionate Desire Matins & Lauds Communion of Saints: The Poor Bastard Under the Bridge Easter Saturday, NY, NY Rockefeller the Center "GARY SNYDER (1930- )"Migration of Birds A Sinecure for P. Whalen Under the Skin of ItAugust on Sourdough, a Visit from Dick Brewer "ANNE WALDMAN (1945- )"How the Sestina (Yawn) WorksRevolution Diaries The Blue That Reminds Me of the Boat When She Left "LEW WELCH (1926-72)""Whenever I make a new poem" "I know a man's supposed to have his hair cut short" "PHILIP WHALEN (1923- )"For C. 20: vii:58, On Which I Renounce the Notion of Social Responsibility Prose Take-Out, Portland, 13: ix:58Something Nice About Myself True Confessions "JOHN WIENERS (1934- )"A Poem for Tea Heads "From "A Poem for Painters A Poem for the Insane LETTERS, ENCOUNTERS, & STATEMENTSON POETICSDonald Allen (1912- ) William Burroughs (1914-97) Gregory Corso Lawrence Ferlinghetti Allen Ginsberg Jack KerouacFrank O'Hara Peter Orlovsky "Acknowledgments ""Index of First Lines" Review Citations:

Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 796 (EAN 9780375413322, Hardcover)

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Contributor Bio:  Ciuraru, Carmela Carmela Ciuraru is not a pseudonym. Her anthologies include First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them and Solitude Poems. She is a graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism and a member of the National Book Critics Circle. She has written for the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, Elle Decor, ARTNews, O, The Oprah Magazine, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn. Contributor Bio:  Young, Kevin Kevin Young is the author of five previous collections of poetry. His book "Jelly Roll "was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and won the Paterson Poetry Prize. His most recent collection, "For the Confederate Dead," won the 2007 Quill Award for poetry. He has also been the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and is currently the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing and curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta.