Tag Archives: Whitman
Not New York
January 8, 2014 I’m about to head off to Chicago, also about to teach my freshman seminar: “Cities.” Chicago again, New York, San Francisco. The books are the usual suspects, but not all of them (for San Francisco I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, contemporary poetry, Nineteenth-century literature, Twentieth century literature, Uncategorized
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Bethel Maine, Camden, Chicago, David Jackson, Edidon, Faulkner, Guatemala, James Merrill, Junot Diaz, Maltese Falcon, Mark Neveu, Miami, Michael Chabon, New York, Oxford Mississippi, Patterson, Richard Blano, San Francisco, The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth, Washington DC, Whitman, William Carlos Williams
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Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman: Songs of Myself
September 19, 2012 As of today, “Still I Rise” has 743,494 views on YouTube. There are 1,113 comments, some vituperative, including this one: “What the fuck kind of poetry is this? John Milton would rise from the dead to kill … Continue reading
Posted in African-American literature, African-American music, contemporary poetry, digital platforms, Genre, Interdisciplinarity, lyric, Media, Music, Nineteenth-century literature, Race, slavery, Twentieth century literature, YouTube videos
Tagged Calypso, Dante, Italian Opera, Leo Logic, Maya Angelou, Milton, Rap Genius, Song of Myself, Still I Rise, Whitman
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