Chicano Poetry politics of identity as irony.
December 21, 2020
We might as well begin with “beyond.” Really I know that my roots come out of the Beat movement. My roots come out of there in the way that all of our roots are intertwined, there, not so much in New York but in San Francisco, where I was born, in the Mission District. I grew up in San Jose, California, in a place that was incredibly liberating in that what? what’s poetry from San Jose? It defied definition; it wasn’t a school, it wasn’t a certain way of writing. It was this incredible freedom to do and sound like anything you want. To me this idea, this linking to the Beats is much like the use of one of those Tibetan meditation gongs that you take up to the top of the mountain, you sound it like you sound this poetry. Not that I write like that, or anyone else writes like each other; but instead this tone dissolves the language and you travel out on it. You send your soul out in this thing, this go
Joseph M. Hassett | The Lilliput Press
188 pages – €15.00 (Available on Amazon, $16.95, May 1, 2021)
Langan’s Book Mark: 4/4 Stars
This is a handsome and stylish book, both in looks and, more importantly, in its capacity to appreciate the magic of William Butler Yeats’s poetry. It’s written by Joseph M. Hassett, the careful scholar who has penned two important books about him and his poetry and now a third, Yeats Now.
Joseph Hassett has written extensively on Yeats, as well as on Joyce and other Irish writers. He has a Ph.D. in Anglo-Irish Literature from University College Dublin and is a graduate of Canisius College and Harvard Law School. His previous publications include Yeats and the Poetics of Hate, 1986; W. B. Yeats and the Muses (Oxford University Press, 2010); and “The Ulysses Trials: Beauty and Truth Meet the Law (Lilliput, 2016.)
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