The Stamp of Class
Reflections on Poetry & Social Class
Contents
Introduction: "Distortion" or "Unexamined Factor"?.........................................................1
1 The "Uneducated Poets": Stephen Duck and Ann Yearsley....................................................8
2 A Song for Occupations: Whitman the Rough................................................................20
3 "Poor Doc, Nobody Wants His Life or His Verses": W. C. Williams and The New Masses.......................32
4 Special Handling: David Schubert and Marcia Nardi........................................................46
5 Caviar and Cabbage: The Voracious Appetite of Melvin Tolson..............................................64
6 Opening the Field: The New American Poetry...............................................................85
7 Literary Men in Blue Jeans: Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett.................................................98
8 Burning Beauty: Diane Wakoski, Eileen Myles, Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Tracie Morris.....................112
Afterword..................................................... ... read full excerpt from The Stamp of Class: Reflections on Poetry and Social Class ebook
