Author Archives: djvaliun

Frank Ohara’s “Personism: A Manifesto” was enjoyable for many reasons. Trying to tie his ideas and his poetic style together seemed difficult at first because the transition in his poetry for me was unclear hard to follow. In his manifesto, … Continue reading →

In “Sunflower Sutra” Ginsberg contrasted the industrial, unnatural expansion taking place in the 1950’s and how American priorities had become predominantly artificial. My only question is when was America not like that? I feel like America was the place where … Continue reading →

New world poets accredit so much to the influence of Walt Whitman’s spirit and inspirational poetry. For many poets from many nations, Walt represented opportunity for people whose voices were once muted under tyrannical scrutiny. Whitman, “the real American singer” … Continue reading →

Whitman was known for playing many different roles or writing through the eyes of many different people and character. He even took the perspective of the observer of all things. After reading Langston Hughes and hearing the class discussion on … Continue reading →

I tried to post a picture, but I failed. It wound up turning into alot of random text that filled up all of my space. Anyway, it was a photo of him as a younger man in a very loose … Continue reading →

Walt says that he the real war isn’t in “leaves of grass”, but he is able to capture some of the emotional experience of both the observer of a nation in turmoil as well as the internal conflict experienced by soldiers … Continue reading →