"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-siecle
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.
General
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2017 |
| First published: |
2009 |
| Authors: |
Andrei Codrescu
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 140mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
128 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-17805-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Sport & Leisure >
Humour >
General
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| LSN: |
0-691-17805-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780691178059 |
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