Jason Shinder
Author of The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later
About the Author
Jason Shinder teaches in the graduate writing programs at Bennington College and the New School University, and is the founder and director of the YMCA National Writer's Voice and the director of Sundance Institute's Writing Program.
Works by Jason Shinder
The Poem I Turn To With Audio CD: Actors and Directors Present Poetry That Inspires Them (2008) 41 copies
Lights, Camera, Poetry! American Movie Poems, the First Hundred Years (1996) — Editor, some editions — 28 copies
The First-Book Market: Where and How to Publish Your First Book and Make It a Success (1998) 23 copies
First Light: Mother And Son Poems: Mother & Son Poems: A Twentieth-Century American Selection (1992) 15 copies
Arrow Breaking Apart 1 copy
Associated Works
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributor — 152 copies
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The poem I turn to : actors and directors present… by Jason Shinder
I like the idea. Two favorite poems of each actor/actress. A good way to compose an anthology.
This collection of essays goes beyond the text to the meaning and impact on each individual touched in some way by this marvelous poem.. The blurb on the back cover states, "... the poem also contained a strange, subversive power that continues to exert its influence to this day." That's not hyperbole. Every time I read "Howl" I feel closer to the text and to the "true me" screaming to be let out. It's as though Ginsberg reaches out and tells me, "You can do this, you can be this, you can ...."
You might think Howl is dated and no longer relevant in our age of technological wonder. You would be wrong, though. Not only is such a thought incorrect, but oddly enough it's just possible that Howl has yet to take its full affect. This book opened up the meaning of Howl, not just by explaining its prose, but by setting the poem in context to our society over half a century after it was first published. This book ensures that Howl will be --and indeed should always be-- fresh and poignant in our lives.… (more)
This book of various contemporary writers' responses to Howl is highly recommended. Eliot Katz has a particularly powerful essay, 'Radical Eyes: Political Poetics and 'Howl' ' on pp. 183-211.
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