The first anthology of its kind, bringing together a diverse selection of new and well-known modern American poets writing on the theme of mother-son relationships; with works by eighty poets, including Sylvia Plath, e. e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, and Langston Hughes.
The first anthology of its kind, bringing together a diverse selection of new and well-known modern American poets writing on the theme of mother-son ...
A tribute to Ginsberg's signature work, which stirred a generation of angel-headed hipsters to cultural rebellion.
In 1956, City Lights, a small San Francisco bookstore, published Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems with its trademark black-and-white cover. The original edition cost seventy-five cents, but there was something priceless about its eponymous piece. Although it gave a voice to the new generation that came of age in the conservative years following World War II, the poem also conferred a strange, subversive power that continues to exert its influence to...
A tribute to Ginsberg's signature work, which stirred a generation of angel-headed hipsters to cultural rebellion.
The final collection by the late Jason Shinder, "one of the finest of our new poets" (Gerald Stern)
I close my eyes and try to remember when I was unopposed, when I started to die, buoyant, fragrant, shuddering with love. --from "Before"
Jason Shinder's last poems are his moving testimonies to poetry, love, and friendship. With power, clarity, and disarming humor, the poems confront grief and mortality with a humility and fortitude that come only "with hope, stupid hope." Stupid Hope is Shinder's...
The final collection by the late Jason Shinder, "one of the finest of our new poets" (Gerald Stern)
