Poetry of Paul Goodman

Paul Goodman described himself as a man of letters but foremost a poet. He published several poetry collections in his life, including The Lordly Hudson (1962), Hawkweed (1967), North Percy (1968), and Homespun of Oatmeal Gray (1970). His Collected Poems (1973) were published posthumously.[1]

Background

Goodman began to write poems in his youth, before his first stories. He was known to compose his poems on paper scraps and envelopes that he carried.[2]

The Lordly Hudson

Composer Ned Rorem put Goodman's poem "The Lordly Hudson" to art song. The Music Library Association called it the best published song of 1948.[3] Soprano Janet Fairbank premiered the work.[4]

Collections

• Stop-Light: Five Dance Poems (1941)
• The Lordly Hudson: Collected Poems (1962)
• Hawkweed (1967)
• North Percy (1968)
• Homespun of Oatmeal Gray (1970)
• Collected Poems (1973)

References

1. Rogoff 1997, pp. 129–130.
2. Stoehr 1986, p. 149.
3. Diggory 2009, p. 410.
4. Rorem 1983a, p. 60.

Works cited

• Diggory, Terence (2009). "Goodman, Paul". Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets. Infobase Publishing. pp. 200–202. ISBN 978-1-4381-1905-2.
• Rogoff, Leonard (1997). "Paul Goodman". In Shatzky, Joel; Taub, Michael (eds.). Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood. pp. 128–139. ISBN 978-0-313-29462-4. OCLC 35758115.
• Rorem, Ned (1983a). "Remembering a Poet". Setting the Tone. Coward-McCann. pp. 358–360.
• Stoehr, Taylor (1986). "Adam and Everyman: Paul Goodman in His Stories". Words and Deeds: Essays on the Realistic Imagination. New York: AMS Press. pp. 149–164. ISBN 978-0-404-61578-9. OCLC 11001514.

Further reading

• Barnard, Roger (February 1, 1973). "Goodman Observed". New Society. 23 (539). pp. 251–252. ISSN 0028-6729. ProQuest 1307085609.
• Capouya, Emile (Fall 1974). "The Poet as Prophet". Parnassus: Poetry in Review. 2: 23–30. Gale KKQFFJ905098518.
• Carruth, Hayden (1992). "Paul Goodman and the Grand Community". Suicides and Jazzers. University of Michigan Press. pp. 81–133. ISBN 978-0-472-09419-6.
• Diggory, Terence (2001). "Community 'Intimate' or 'Inoperative': New York School Poets and Politics from Paul Goodman to Jean-Luc Nancy". The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets. Orono, Me: National Poetry Foundation. pp. 13–32. ISBN 978-0-943373-50-8. OCLC 247170553.
• Gooch, Brad (2014). City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-230342-4.
• Green, Martin (January 25, 1973). "The Liberation Man". The Guardian. p. 11. ISSN 0261-3077 – via ProQuest.
• Horowitz, Steven Paul (1987). The Poetry of Paul Goodman (Ph.D.). University of Iowa. OCLC 34486237.
• Horowitz, Steven P. (1989). "An Investigation of Paul Goodman and Black Mountain". American Poetry. 7 (1): 2–30. ISSN 0737-3635.
• Howard, Richard (1969). "Paul Goodman". Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950. New York: Atheneum. pp. 153–163. Gale UUOFSF585881116.
• Justice, Donald (1956). "Occasional Poetry (Revs. of The Copernican Revolution and Days by Paul Goodman)". Poetry. 89 (2): 120–122. ISSN 0032-2032. JSTOR 20586323.
• Keane, Tim (July 2, 2014). "Into a Future of His Choice: Catching Up with Frank O'Hara". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
• Lehman, David; Brehm, John, eds. (April 3, 2006). "Paul Goodman". The Oxford Book of American Poetry. Oxford University Press. pp. 569–. ISBN 978-0-19-976997-1.
• Levertov, Denise (April 13, 1963). "One of the Lucky (Rev. of The Lordly Hudson)". The Nation. 196 (15): 310–311. ISSN 0027-8378. EBSCOhost 13210856.
• Lynch, Michael (July 1974). "Goodman the Poet". Body Politic (14): 10. ISSN 0315-3606. EBSCOhost 10381538.
• Mazzocco, Robert (May 21, 1970). "Good Man (Rev. of Hawkweed and Five Years by Paul Goodman)". The New York Review of Books. 14 (10). pp. 3–. ISSN 0028-7504. ProQuest 1311527808.
• Ostriker, Alicia (1976). "Paul Goodman". Partisan Review. 43 (2). pp. 286–295. ISSN 0031-2525.
• Rorem, Ned (2013). "Goodman, Paul". The Grove Dictionary of American Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-531428-1.
• Rorem, Ned (November 20, 1983). "Literary Menage a Trois". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. ProQuest 147543716.
• Roskolenko, Harry (1956). "A Question of Governance (Rev. of Red Jacket by Paul Goodman)". Poetry. 89 (2): 118–119. ISSN 0032-2032. JSTOR 20586322.
• Shapiro, Harvey (September 1, 1963). "To Be Oneself, to Be Sane, to Insist". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
• Shaw, Lytle (2006). Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie. ISBN 978-0-87745-984-2.
• Tytell, John (1997). The Living Theatre: Art, Exile, and Outrage. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-3486-8.