EN218 Lecture Notes - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco Renaissance, Jazz Poetry
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Different than the beats movement, which was marked by rebellion. Sfr = greater sense of community: radical experimentalism in terms of poetry and politics, trying to keep poetry out of the academies and subversive. Early 1950s = small literary presses and magazines, literary circles to talk about poetry and poetics. Attempting to get poets out there and for people to read this poetry. U of berkeley (robert duncan) academic perspective of poetry and getting it known. Working in a network and working in a tradition. Lawrence ferlinghetti: city lights bookshop trying to get emerging writers published, howl obscenity. Jazz poetry written to be specifically accompanied by jazz. Ferlinghetti was interested in the crafting of poetry, probably because of his sense of working in a community. Interested in the oral nature of poetry you speak poetry, it"s a form of communication, so he writes in vernacular. Uses a lot of rhetorical devices (assonance, consonance, rhymes, anaphora)
