HIP SUBLIME: BEAT WRITERS AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Credits
INTRODUCTION: STEPHEN DICKEY, SHEILA MURNAGHAN, AND RALPH M. ROSEN
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CHAPTER 2: “Thalatta! Thalatta!”: XENOPHON, JOYCE, AND KEROUAC:
CHRISTOPHER GAIR
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CHAPTER 3: “The Final Fix” and “The Transcendent Kingdom”: THE QUEST IN THE EARLY WORK OF WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: LONI REYNOLDS
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CHAPTER 4: The Invention of Sincerity: ALLEN GINSBERG AND THE PHILOLOGY OF THE MARGINS: MATTHEW PFAFF
“sabotaged by sexual psychopaths”
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CHAPTER 5: Radical Brothers-in-Arms: GAIUS AND HANK AT THE RACETRACK: MARGUERITE JOHNSON
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CHAPTER 6: Riffing on Catullus: ROBERT CREELEY’S POETICS OF ADULTERY: NICK SELBY
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CHAPTER 7: Sappho Comes to the Lower East Side: ED SANDERS, THE SIXTIES AVANT-GARDE, AND FICTIONS OF SAPPHO: JENNIE SKERL
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CHAPTER 8: Robert Duncan and Pindar’s Dance: VICTORIA MOUL
Pindaric Features and Form in “A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar”
Action and Image in Duncan and Pindar
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CHAPTER 9: Kenneth Rexroth: GREEK ANTHOLOGIST: GIDEON NISBET
Rexroth and the Tradition of the Anthology
Separating the Truth from the Facts
Old Rhetorics, New Rhythms
How Poems Begins
How Poems Ends
The Afterlife of Poems
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CHAPTER 10: Philip Whalen and the Classics: “A WALKING GROVE OF TREES”: JANE FALK
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Introduction: Practices and Lineages
The Muse(s)
The Greco-Roman Thread
The Buddhist Turn
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CHAPTER 12: Towards a Post-Beat Poetics: CHARLES OLSON’S LOCALISM AND THE SECOND SOPHISTIC: RICHARD FLETCHER
The Roots of Olson’s Localism
Olson’s Greeks and Beats
Pausanias, Olson and Localism
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AFTERWORD: “Standing at a Juncture of Planes”: NANCY M. GRACE
AND JENNIE SKERL
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CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
CLASSICAL MEMORIES/MODERN IDENTITIES: Paul Allen Miller and Richard H. Armstrong, Series Editors