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Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In Memory of Radio\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Way Out West\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Screamers\"\u003cbr\u003eLetter About Kerouac's Prose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Ray Bremser\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Funny Lotus Blues...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Diane DiPrima\u003cbr\u003e\"Three Laments\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Song for Baby-O, Unborn\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Practice of Magical Evocation\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Poetics\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Brass Furnace Going Out\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Bob Dylan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Blowin' in the Wind\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Times They Are A-Cahngin'\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTarantula\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Brenda Frazer (Bonni Bremser)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poem to Lee Forest\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Tuli Kupferberg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Greenwich Village of My Dreams\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e1001 Ways to Beat the Draft\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Jack Micheline\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poet of the Streets\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Frank O'Hara\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Les Luths\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Post the Lake Poets Ballad\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Personal Poem\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Day Lady Died\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Peter Orlovsky\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lepers Cry\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Ed Sanders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poem from Jail\" (excerpt)\u003cbr\u003e\"The Cutting Prow\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. Anne Waldman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Our Past\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12. John Wieners\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A poem for record players\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A poem for tea heads\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A poem for museum goers\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A poem for the insane\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Feminine Soliloquy\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Children of the Working Class\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tales of Beatnik Glory\"\u003cbr\u003eMemoirs and Posthumous Tributes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor's Note\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Charles Bukowski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes of a Dirty Old Man\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. William Burroughs, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKentucky Ham\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Carolyn Cassady\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOff the Road\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Diane DiPrima\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDinners and Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Brenda Frazer (Bonnie Bremser)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTroia: Mexican Memoirs\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Brion Gysin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Beat Hotel, Paris\" (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Joyce Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinor Characters\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Hettie Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow I Became Hettie Jones\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Jan Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaby Driver\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Ken Kesey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Day After Superman Died\" (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. Michael McClure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mad Cub\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12. Ed Sanders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTales of Beatnik Glory\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 6\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Unspeakable Visions Of The Individual\"\u003cbr\u003eLater Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor's Note\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. William Burroughs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNova Express\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Gregory Corso\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Columbia U Poesy Reading—1975\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Whole Mess . . . Almost\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Diane Di Prima\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLoba: Parts I-VIII\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Lawrence Ferlinghetti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Canticle of Jack Kerouac\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Uses of Poetry\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"First Party at Ken Kesey's\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Wichita Vortex Sutra\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Anti-Vietnam War Peace Mobilization\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Mugging\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Ode to Failure\"\u003cbr\u003e\"White Shroud\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night\"\u003cbr\u003eWriting Letters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Michael McClure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Song (I Work with the Shape)\"\u003cbr\u003e\"It's Nation Time\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Watching the Stolen Rose\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Death of Kin Chuen Louie\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Ed Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hymn to Archilochus\"\u003cbr\u003e\"What Would Tom Paine Do?\" (Song)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. 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It demonstrates the value and importance of sociological approaches to reading in expanding the methods of the discipline and enabling new evidence-based insights into how lay readers read. It combines this with a sensitivity to text and temporality, narrative and nuance, that surely cannot but be approved of by even the most stalwart defenders of traditional literary critical methods. * Sarah Dillon, Professor of Literature and the Public Humanities, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge *\u003cbr\u003eHow did the pandemic change our relationship to books? This eagerly awaited study does a deep dive into the role of literature in a time of crisis, looking closely at what and how people read in 2020 and 2021 as well as the times and places in which they picked up a book. The results are fascinating, revealing, and often unexpected * Rita Felski, University of Virginia *\u003cbr\u003eDid anyone actually spend the pandemic reading Proust? Find out in this intimate and revealing account of all the ways books kept us company during a time of almost unbearable isolation * Matthew Rubery, Queen Mary University of London *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an extremely important book, mixing literary theory with qualitative and quantitive data in an innovative way in order to understand how and what we read during the pandemic, and what this means. It provides a vital insight into the life of literature during a crisis * Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway University of London *\u003cbr\u003eOverall, the book is a very timely contribution to discussions surrounding the seismic cultural and societal shifts triggered-or merely made visible-by the pandemic. The authors are well aware that their sample can shed light only on a slice of the reading public, but through their in-depth interviews and careful curation of the responses, we are treated to fascinating insights about readers and reading during the pandemic. Readers of the monograph will certainly think back to their own pandemic reading practices (and perhaps glance at their pandemic reading diaries?) as they peruse the pages of this tome. * Corinna Norrick-Rühl, University of Münster, Germany *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Readers Introduction 1: Time and What to Do in It 2: Plague Literature and the Question of Allegory 3: The Novel of Confinement 4: Old Books in New Times 5: Reading Outdoors 6: Reading Summer in Summer 2020 7: Reading the Romance 8: Reading About Race 9: Long Reads Appendix: The Surveys","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732600861015,"sku":"9780192857682","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780192857682.jpg?v=1719997596"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/literary-studies-c-1900-to-c-2000.oembed?page=122","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}