Poetry for Students, Volume 29

Ishmael Reed, and Haki Madhubuti, among many others. The literature of the movement was often written in black vernacular and ad ...

Poetry of Lucille Clifton, Holladay argues that Clifton’s focus on female uniqueness places her ‘‘in the long tradition of poets ...

misogynistic law, medical theory, and religion that have complicated the female body. As Lup- ton notes, ‘‘Like many of her meta ...

they donothave rather than by what they do have. Put another way, the unspoken assumption is that the first term in each pair ab ...

write things down. I like words a lot, as you know. I have always been very fond of words, and the different sounds they make. B ...

Lucille:And I think, I really do think, that one of the things people ought to do in class- rooms is model being a whole human. ...

Lucille:And perhaps if we allow them to be, they’ll be enough, you know? Why do we think that we need to be so favored in the un ...

1960s—‘‘are so mad. I’m the one what took the stuff.’’ And I thought, ‘‘Now that’s really inter- esting, isn’t it?’’ That he was ...

that was. I didn’t know what was meant. One day, I got a letter from Hoyt Fuller who was editingNegro Digest(you know it latter ...

somebody needs to write about that. And I may as well since I’m one of the ones, I’m sure, who can feel that. I don’t think that ...

———,Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton, Louisiana State University Press, 2004, p. 65. Lupton, Mary Jane,Lucille Clif ...

Howl Allen Ginsberg’s ‘‘Howl’’ was first introduced to the public at a poetry reading on October 13, 1955 (some sources say Octo ...

‘‘Howl’’ is now available in Ginsberg’sCol- lected Poems, 1947–1997 (2006). This edition also contains the poet William Carlos W ...

From 1948 to 1949 Ginsberg had a series of mystical visions of the eighteenth-century Eng- lish poet William Blake, one of his p ...

of Arts and Letters (1974), a National Arts Club Gold Medal (1979), a Poetry Society of America Gold Medal (1986), a Golden Wrea ...

In their wanderings around New York, the hipsters talk of hospitals, jails, and wars, the destructive institutions of straight s ...

State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Orange- burg, New York, where Solomon spent time as a patient. The poet’s sympathy wit ...

society are gone. The poet imagines the souls of suicides who jumped into the river. Now that their souls are in eternity, they ...

in the second phrase of this line, according to Ginsberg’s annotated edition, refers to the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras ...

When it first gained colloquial usage in 1948 the termbeatmeant beaten down by conventional society and derelict. Later, Jack Ke ...