Tentative Description of a Dinner Given to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13:
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The New American Poetry, 1945-1960
Author: Donald Allen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780520209534
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Donald Allen's prophetic anthology had an electrifying effect on two generations, at least, of American poets and readers. More than the repetition of familiar names and ideas that most anthologies seem to be about, here was the declaration of a collective, intelligent, and thoroughly visionary work-in-progress: the primary example for its time of the anthology-as-manifesto. Its republication today--complete with poems, statements on poetics, and autobiographical projections--provides us, again, with a model of how a contemporary anthology can and should be shaped. In these essentials it remains as fresh and useful a guide as it was in 1960."--Jerome Rothenberg, editor of Poems for the Millennium "The New American Poetry is a crucial cultural document, central to defining the poetics and the broader cultural dynamics of a particular historical moment."--Alan Golding, author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry
The 1950s
Author: Richard Alan Schwartz
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1438108761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the history of the United States during the 1950s through such primary sources as memoirs, letters, contemporary journalism, and official documents.
Radical Chapters
Author: Michael Doyle
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2024-11-15
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 0815657293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler’s Books and Magazines is one of the most influential independent bookstores in American history. When owner Roy Kepler opened the San Francisco Bay Area store in 1955, he led the way as a pioneer in the "paperback revolution." He popularized the once radical idea of selling affordable books in an intellectually bracing coffeehouse atmosphere. Paperback selling was not the only revolution Kepler supported, however. In Radical Chapters, Doyle sheds light on Kepler’s remarkable contributions to pacifism and social change. He highlights Kepler’s achievements in advocating radical pacifism during World War II, antinuclear activism during the Cold War era, and antiwar activism during the Vietnam War. During those decades, Kepler played an integral role, creating a community and a space to exchange ideas for such notable figures as Jerry Garcia, Joan Baez, and Stewart Brand. Doyle’s fascinating chronicle captures the man who inspired that community and offers a moving tribute to his legacy. In a new foreword for this revised edition, Doyle updates Kepler’s story and assesses how the bookstore and the community it serves have remained socially engaged and commercially viable amid the tumult of the twenty-first century.
The Age of Nixon
Author: Carl Freedman
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1846949432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fundamental argument this book is, first, that Richard Nixon, though not generally regarded as a charismatic or emotionally outgoing politician like Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, did establish profound psychic connections with the American people, connections that can be detected both in the brilliant electoral success that he enjoyed for most of his career and in his ultimate defeat during the Watergate scandal; and, second and even more important, that these connections are symptomatic of many of the most important currents in American life. The book is not just a work of political history or political biography but a study of cultural power: that is, a study in the ways that culture shapes our politics and frames our sense of possibilities and values. In its application of Marxist, psychoanalytic, and other theoretical tools to the study of American electoral politics, and in a way designed for the general as well as for the academic reader, it is a new kind of book.
American Literature from 1945 Through Today
Author: Adam Augustyn Assistant Manager and Assistant Editor, Literature
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2010-08-15
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 161530133X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the works and writers from post World War II America to today, including Stephen Crane, Arthur Miller, and Allen Ginsberg.
Edward Dorn, Charles Olson, and the American West
Author: Paul Varner
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-03-12
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1527548422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the poetics of the 20th-century American West depicted by Edward Dorn through the influence and inspiration of his Black Mountain College mentor and fellow poet Charles Olson. It considers some of the most important and challenging poetic representations of the 20th-century American West to come out of the Beat Movement and avant-garde literary scene.
The Sixties
Author: Todd Gitlin
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2013-07-17
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0307834026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSay “the Sixties” and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world—either through music, drugs, and universal love or by “putting their bodies on the line” against injustice and war. Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has written an authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade—a decade he helped shape as an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam war. Part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation, this critically acclaimed work resurrects a generation on all its glory and tragedy.
The Poetry of the Americas
Author: Harris Feinsod
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0190682000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Poetry of the Americas provides an expansive history of relations between poets in the US and Latin America over three decades, from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II to 1960s Cold War cultural policy.
Poetry FM
Author: Lisa Hollenbach
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2023-05-12
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1609388925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetry FM is the first book to explore the dynamic relationship between post-1945 poetry and radio in the United States. Contrary to assumptions about the decline of literary radio production in the television age, the transformation of the broadcasting industry after World War II changed writers’ engagement with radio in ways that impacted both the experimental development of FM radio and the oral, performative emphasis of postwar poetry. Lisa Hollenbach traces the history of Pacifica Radio—founded in 1946, the nation’s first listener-supported public radio network—through the 1970s: from the radical pacifists and poets who founded Pacifica after the war; to the San Francisco Renaissance, Beat, and New York poets who helped define the countercultural sound of Pacifica stations KPFA and WBAI in the 1950s and 1960s; to the feminist poets and activists who seized Pacifica’s frequencies in the 1970s. In the poems and recorded broadcasts of writers like Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Spicer, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, Pat Parker, Bernadette Mayer, and Susan Howe, one finds a recurring ambivalence about the technics and poetics of reception. Through tropes of static noise, censorship, and inaudibility as well as voice, sound, and signal, these radiopoetic works suggest new ways of listening to the sounds and silences of Cold War American culture.
