Chapter 7 - Breaking Fifties' Conformity: Beatitude & Confession

Tuesday, October 29 - The Beats

• Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" (W & N), "Birdbrain!" (B)
• Allen Ginsberg and his psychiatrist (W)
• A page from the typescript of Ginsberg's Howl (W)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Dog" (W, B), "Sometime during Eternity" (N)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Baseball Canto" (includes audio file) (W)
• Jack Kerouac, "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose", and "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose" (W)
• Kerouac wore khakis - Gap ad
• Jack Kerouac, excerpt from On the Road (W)
• Jack Kerouac, "trying to think of a rule..." (.au audio file)
• Gary Snyder - basic materials for the counterculture
• Jack Kerouac - more audio files
• Mongo BearWolf's Ginsberg web site
• Clellon Holmes, "This is the Beat Generation" (1952) (W)
• Gregory Corso, "The Mad Yak" (W) and brief bio (P208)
• June Jordan, "Poem about My Rights" (N)
• Amiri Baraka, "In Memory of Radio" (B)
• Maggie Estep, short bio (W)
• spoken word poetry (W)
• MTV's "Spoken Word" reviewed by Caryn James in the New York Times (W)
• United States of Poetry
• Maggie Estep, quicktime movie of MTV performance of "The Jerk I'm Obsessed with":
  THE ENTIRE POEM || Quicktime Movie (.mov) || 13.7 Megs
  FIRST 30 SECONDS || Quicktime Movie (.mov) || 3.5 Megs
  
• Maggie Estep, "Sex Goddess of the Western Hemisphere" (W)
  Optional:
  
• Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (W)
• "The Last Poets" (W)
• Allen Ginsberg's FBI file summarized by Herbert Mitgang in Dangerous Dossiers (1988)

Thursday, October 31 - Triumphing over the Triumph of the Therapeutic

• Robert Lowell, "Man and Wife" (B), "Memories of West Street & Lepke" (N), "For the Union Dead" (N), "Skunk Hour" (N)
• Sylvia Plath, "The Colossus," "Daddy" (both in N)
• Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones], "Letter to the Evergreen Review about Kerouac's Spontaneous Prose" (B)
• Susan Sontag on style from "Against Interpretation" (W)

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