Thomas Parkinson's "Poets, Poems, Movements" (1987)

Ann Arbor, UMI Research Press (book, essay), 1987.
9.375" x 6.375" x 1.125", 330 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN 0-8357-1783-6.

Poets, Poems, Movements by Thomas Francis Parkinson, a book of essays published in hardcover by UMI Research Press (Ann Arbor, Michigan, US) in 1987. Jacket design by Billie Hollenbeck. Jacket Photo by Rosalie Blakey.

A book of essays which includes as its final chapter “Critical Approaches to William Burroughs, or How to Admit an Admiration for a Good Dirty Book”, pp. 313-320, an essay on Burroughs and Naked Lunch.  This text was previously published in Occident, Spring 1980.

Not in Shoaf. Not in Schottlaender.

Contents:

• Preface
• Poetry and the Art of Loneliness:
• 1. Poetry and the Art of Loneliness
• Poets as Poets and Audiences:
• 2. Yeats and Pound: The Illusion of Influence
• 3. Pound and Williams
• 4. Hart Crane and Yvor Winters
• Some Grand Poems:
• 5. Whitman's 'When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd' and the American Civil Religion
• 6. Wallace Stevens on Sunday Morning
• 7. Yeats' 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen'
• Yeats and Contemporary Irish Poetry:
• 8. W. B. Yeats
• 9. Serious Work: The Poetry and Prose of Seamus Heaney
• 10. Poetry Is Alive and Well in Ireland
• Literary Movements:
• 11. The Beat Writers: Phenomenon or Generation
• 12. After the Beat Generation
• 13. Current Assumptions about Poetry
• 14. Yeats and the Limits of Modernity
• Some American Poets: 
• 15. Robert Lowell: For the Union Dead
• 16. Robert Lowell: The Final Phase
• 17. The Untranslatable Poetry of Yvor Winters
• 18. Kenneth Rexroth, Poet
• 19. Reflections on Kenneth Rexroth
• 20. Robert Duncan's Ground Work
• 21. Yes, Beautiful Rare Wilderness!
• 22. The Poetry of Gary Snyder
• 23. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• 24. William Everson: A Poet, Anarchist and Printer Emerges from Waldport
• 25. Reflections on Allen Ginsberg as Poet
• 26. Critical Approaches to William Burroughs, or How to Admit an Admiration for a Good Dirty Book
• Index