Post Modern America 1965-Present Day

1. Post Modern America1965-Present Day By: Katie Eilerman and Siera Swob

2. Authors Rosmarie Waldrop Charles Olson Robert Duncan Nathaniel Mackey Frank O’Hara Susan Howe

3. Rosmarie Waldrop Rosmarie is the author of more than three dozen books of poetry. She spent a year in Paris where she met many French poets. While these great poets influenced many of her works, she translated their poems into English where the could be introduced in America. Rosmarie’s honors include: the Rhode Island Governor's Arts Award, the PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Citation for Translation, a Translation Center Award, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in Poetry and Translation. Some of her poetry books include: Splitting Image, Blindsight, and Love like pronouns. In her poetry, she wrote about everyday life and allowed people to reflect and relate to her poetry.

4. Charles Olson Was a second generation American modernist poet Most of his works tend to explore social, historical, and political concerns. Charles invented the term “postmodern” in a letter he sent to his friend, Robert Creeley. Some of his major works include:The Kingfishers, Only the red fox, only the crow, and The Maximus Poems.

5. Robert Duncan He is described as one of the move accomplished, one of the most influential of the postwar American poets. His poems drew on myth, occultism, religion, and innovative writing practices. His childhood experiences shape his poems, and he was encouraged to write by his high school English teacher. He was an important part of the Black Mountain school of poetry Some of his main works are;Heavenly City Earthly City (1947), The Opening of the Field (1960), Roots and Branches (1964), A Book of Resemblances (1966), Bending the Bow (1968), andAfter a 15-year publishing hiatus

6. Nathaniel Mackey • He was a poet, novelist, editor, and critic. • He believes music and poetry are closely related. • “I try to cultivate the music of language, which is not just sounds. It’s also meaning and implication. It’s also nuance. It’s also a kind of angular suggestion.” • He has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1979 • His major works are;Splay Anthem (2006) and Eroding Witness (1985),Bass Cathedral (2007)

7. Frank O’Hara Frank was deliriously funny and very moving in his poems He made everyday activities sound better and would make jokes out of them He would take conversations he heard and turn them into funny poems His life was cut short by a dune buggy accident Some of his poems include: A Note to Harold Fondren, A Step Away from Them, and A Wreath for John Wheelwright

8. Susan Howe Susan is an American poet, scholar, essayist and critic. She is closely associated with the Language Poets, which is a group of poets who emerged in the late 1960’s. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional ideas of genre (fiction, essay, style and poetry). Many of Howe's books contains poetic echoes of sound, but is not pinned down by a consistent poetic rhyme scheme. She is the recipient of the 2011 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Some of her major works include: Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems, Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979,and The Midnight.

9. Major Works As the Dead Prey Upon Us-Charles Olson A Little Language-Robert Duncan The Round World-Rosmarie Waldrop In Favor of One’s Time-Frank O’hara Soonest Mended-John Ashbery

10. As the Dead Pray Upon Us This poem uses a variety of stanza patterns. It really shows Olson’s strategies for writing. This work is a projective poem about living, death, the mind, relationships, history and politics, war, and conflict.

11. A Little Language This poem was a very distinct one for him. It related to him in a lot of the ways that all of his poems do, but really captured the subjects of the postmodern time period. This poem was about religion, pets, animals, relationships, nature, language and linguistics, and art and sciences.

12. The Round World In this poem, Rosmarie Waldrop created an illusion with her spacing and her words. She used spaces to emphasize the poem and dramatize it. In the poem she talks about how the eye’s can see what is truly there and looking out our own eye may even be what is best or may be a habit.

13. In Favor of One’s Time In this poem, Frank speaks of the stages of life and holds an allusion in the bible speaking of Jacob. Frank O’hara talks about how we live outside His garden and how we await to be with him. He thinks that living isn’t the greatest adventure we have had or are having, it is when we become with Him. He explains how we don’t remember the marvelous memories when we die, but will have more memories being with Him.

14. Soonest Mended In this poem, John Ashbery talks about the minorities in America. In his mind, minority refers to the amount of power held in American society. It includes people of all different races and ages with distinct jobs and ways of life. He compares it with the majority, which include social leaders and the government. Also, he talks about how technology is corrupting American life and how American’s, by using this technology, are feeding more and more power into the “leaders”.

15. Characteristics: • This era was an incredibly positive and optimistic time period. • Began after World War II • However, there was also fear of: • nuclear war • no longer any order • the rise of middle class • Also, the poetry in this period included much: • Irony • Black humor • Playfulness • Temporal distortion • Magic Realism • Paranoia

16. Anticipated Stranger-By John Ashbery the bruise will stop by later. For now, the pain pauses in its round, notes the time of day, the patient’s temperature, leaves a memo for the surrogate: What the hell did you think you were doing? I mean . . . Oh well, less said the better, they all say. I’ll post this at the desk. God will find the pattern and break it.

17. Analysis Title-Anticipated Stranger Author-John Ashbery Style-personal, unclearly narrative, full of allusion and metaphor, no rhyme scheme Devices-Metaphor, allusion, apostrophe POV-Nurse Both implied and literal meaning

18. Analysis The bruises will come later and the pain comes and goes because of the medicine that the nurse gives every once in awhile. The nurse notes the patient’s temperature and the time to know when she gave the medicine. She then writes a note to the woman who may have filled in for her and was mad because she may have messed something up. The last line “God will find the pattern and break it” may mean that god is the one who will decide what happens and what it happens.