TY  - BOOK
AU  - Codrescu,Andrei
TI  - The Poetry Lesson
SN  - 9780691147246
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - A Coney Island of the Mind
KW  - Aldous Huxley
KW  - Allen Ginsberg
KW  - Amiri Baraka
KW  - An Embarrassment of Riches
KW  - Anna Akhmatova
KW  - Aphorism
KW  - Aram Saroyan
KW  - Arthur Rimbaud
KW  - Aubade
KW  - Barney Rosset
KW  - Beat Generation
KW  - Bei Dao
KW  - Bertolt Brecht
KW  - Black Man
KW  - Blank verse
KW  - Boredom
KW  - Britney Spears
KW  - Cataclysm (Dragonlance)
KW  - Charles Bukowski
KW  - Che Guevara
KW  - Cunt
KW  - De Profundis (letter)
KW  - Death in Venice
KW  - Deathbed
KW  - Edgar Allan Poe
KW  - Emily Dickinson
KW  - English muffin
KW  - Ezra Pound
KW  - Feral cat
KW  - Flapper
KW  - French Colonial
KW  - French Communist Party
KW  - From Beyond the Grave
KW  - Futility (poem)
KW  - Gabriela Mistral
KW  - Gaggle
KW  - Gertrude Stein
KW  - Gregory Corso
KW  - Guerrilla warfare
KW  - Guillaume Apollinaire
KW  - Heir to the Empire
KW  - Hippie
KW  - His Family
KW  - I Wish (manhwa)
KW  - In Another Country
KW  - Isadora Duncan
KW  - Jack Kerouac
KW  - Jacques Maritain
KW  - James Merrill
KW  - Jan Hus
KW  - Jan Kerouac
KW  - Jim Morrison
KW  - Joan Vollmer
KW  - Junkie (novel)
KW  - Kitsch
KW  - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
KW  - Libido
KW  - Lord Byron
KW  - Marilyn Monroe
KW  - Max Jacob
KW  - McSorley's Old Ale House
KW  - Memoir
KW  - Mennonite
KW  - Mexico City Blues
KW  - Milan Kundera
KW  - Miroslav Holub
KW  - Monomania
KW  - Mr
KW  - Naked Lunch
KW  - Nobel Prize
KW  - Olga Rudge
KW  - Orgy
KW  - Patti Smith
KW  - Pheromone
KW  - Pocket watch
KW  - Poet laureate
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Pretty Face
KW  - Pyramid scheme
KW  - Racism
KW  - Rant (novel)
KW  - Red Mass
KW  - Ridicule
KW  - Shel Silverstein
KW  - Sodomy
KW  - Surrealism
KW  - Take Shelter
KW  - The New York Times Book Review
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - The Price of Gold
KW  - The Scary Guy
KW  - This Country
KW  - To This Day
KW  - Tristan Tzara
KW  - Under the Volcano
KW  - Wallace Stevens
KW  - War and War
KW  - William Saroyan
KW  - Young Widow
N1  - Frontmatter --; The Poetry Lesson; restricted access
N2  - "Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall), you blindfold them and lead them by the hand into a labyrinth made from bones. Then you tell them their assignment: 'Find the Grail. You have a New York minute to get it.'"--The Poetry Lesson The Poetry Lesson is a hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a "typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik"--one with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an endless store of entertaining literary anecdotes, reliable or otherwise. Neither a novel nor a memoir but mimicking aspects of each, The Poetry Lesson is pure Andrei Codrescu: irreverent, unconventional, brilliant, and always funny. Codrescu takes readers into the strange classroom and even stranger mind of a poet and English professor on the eve of retirement as he begins to teach his final semester of Intro to Poetry Writing. As he introduces his students to THE TOOLS OF POETRY (a list that includes a goatskin dream notebook, hypnosis, and cable TV) and THE TEN MUSES OF POETRY (mishearing, misunderstanding, mistranslating . . . ), and assigns each of them a tutelary "Ghost-Companion" poet, the teacher recalls wild tales from his coming of age as a poet in the 1960s and 1970s, even as he speculates about the lives and poetic and sexual potential of his twenty-first-century students. From arguing that Allen Ginsberg wasn't actually gay to telling about the time William Burroughs's funeral procession stopped at McDonald's, The Poetry Lesson is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of an inimitable poet, teacher, and storyteller
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400836048
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