Denise Levertov (1923-1997) Lisa Narbeshuber looks into the work of Denise Levertov in her article, “Relearning Denise Levertov’s Alphabet: War, Flesh, and the Intimacy of Otherness” in which she delves into Levertov’s Vietnam-era poetry and the way the poet’s cultural writing “shares a certain universality of flesh, and it can be used to […]
In the first stanza of Ginsberg’s poem, “A Supermarket in California,” he opens with addressing Walt Whitman, the famous 19th century poet. Ginsberg walks under the full moon and then, “shopping for images,” enters a supermarket and thinks of Whitman’s enumerations. Enumerations are defined as “the action of mentioning a number of things one by […]
“’The Willingness to Speak:’ Diane di Prima and Italian American Feminist Body Politics,” written by Rosanne Giannini Quinn, discusses Diane di Prima’s significance within the context of Italian American culture. Quinn highlights many pieces of di Prima as well as many movements that she was a part of. This article was written in 2003 for […]