Classes & Workshops for Adults
Vort Ting
Mondays, 7 - 9 PM
10809 Garland Road, Dallas 75218
Section 3: May 7, 14, 21, & June 4, 2012
"Howl and Usura: The Rhetoric and Sound of Pound and Ginsberg"
led by Greg Thompson
Howl was one of the most influential poems written in English. For many it was the howl that sounded the beginning of the great counter cultural movements of the mid to late 20th century in the United States. In the Moloch section of Howl, Ginsberg attacked the hunger for wealth and money and named it after the evil god of the Philistines, Moloch. But earlier, in the mid 1930's, Ezra Pound wrote the Italian Cantos and in particular the Usura Canto, both attacking greed and the selfish hunger for money. In this section we will examine the connection between these two works and two authors: Pound the anti-Semite and and Ginsberg the Jewish author of such works as Kaddish.
- $20 for a single visit.
- MEMBER DISCOUNTS: $65 for 1 section, $120 for any 2 sections, or $165 for all 3 sections.
