In "Whitman's Wild Children", Neelie Cherkovski looks at eleven contemporary beat poets -- Michael McClure, Charles Bukowski, John Wieners, James Broughton, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gregory Corso, Harold Norse, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- chosen because each, like Whitman, has taken "his own road" and had little to do with what was thought acceptable in mainstream American culture during the 1940's and 1950's. "When Whitman wrote 'Song of Myself", Cherkovski asserts in his introduction ...
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In "Whitman's Wild Children", Neelie Cherkovski looks at eleven contemporary beat poets -- Michael McClure, Charles Bukowski, John Wieners, James Broughton, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gregory Corso, Harold Norse, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- chosen because each, like Whitman, has taken "his own road" and had little to do with what was thought acceptable in mainstream American culture during the 1940's and 1950's. "When Whitman wrote 'Song of Myself", Cherkovski asserts in his introduction, "he stepped off the map and faced the unknown, absolutely alone. He shook off preconceptions of form and content and allowed intuition to lead him forward".
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