Rethinking Post-war American Poetry
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Ginsberg's Brinkmanship. Steven Axelrod, University of California, Riverside
Allen Ginsberg dared the ideological state apparatus to act against him. His defiance bore an uncanny resemblance to John Foster Dulles’s foreign policy of “deterrence,” yet it did so in pursuit of a dissident culture rather than hegemony.
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At Least as Good as the Movies. Hilene Flanzbaum, Butler University
In this paper, I argue that the middle generation of American poets were much more influenced by film than has been previously noted. Looking at a short story by Delmore Schwartz, several poems by Lowell and several of Berryman's Dream Songs, I discover a new context in which to read these works.
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Robert Lowell’s "For the Union Dead": A Politics of the War Dead. Lorrie Goldensohn, Independent Scholar
Lowell’s elegy for Colonel Shaw and the black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts is presented from two perspectives. First, I contrast it to other poems commemorating the Civil War dead. Second, I consider Lowell’s treatment of the American heroic.
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