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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Poetry Lesson (originale 2010; edizione 2010)di Andrei Codrescu
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I stopped reading this book about halfway through, irritated by the personality of the professor which overpowers the many anecdotes of poets and poetry he recounts. His passion for poetry is completely tied up with his own inflated ego - the former suffers because of the latter. I refer the reader further to a terrific review here on the book's page by LT member Anthony Willard who describes very well my thoughts on the book. It seems Mr. Willard has more patience than I. ( ) Very short book, an imaginative account of a poetry class taught by the author, full of humorous, philosophical, and imaginative asides and ruminations about poetry, teaching, young people, postmodernism, among other topics. Lots of name-dropping and accounts of meetings with famous poets, mainly of thirty to fifty years ago. This is an entertaining essay with some illuminating literary insights, but the tone is so arch and the attitude so self-indulgent that it is hard to give the author's opinions much credence. To me, it was worth the read for the humor and the introduction to some poets I did not know about (e.g. Paul Blackburn). Lots of more or less vulgar sexual humor at the expense of the students was bearable but not so funny. It merely added to the overall portrayal of Poet as Smartass. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"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-si©·cle 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 1960's and 1970's, 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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