Bharati Mukherjee (1940-);
(
The Tiger’s Daughter
and
Jasmine
) has similarly depicted the uneasiness of life in
America from the perspectives of Indian-Americans.
Poetry.
Some contemporary American poets have used their poetry to express their strong social concerns and
beliefs. The
Beat
poets, primarily in the 1950s and 1960s, wrote poetry highly critical of traditional middle-class values
and lifestyles and poetry that celebrated their hip counterculture. The most well-known Beat poet is
Allen Ginsburg
(1926-1997)
, whose rambling, intense, image-filled poem, “Howl,” shocked conventional sensibilities when it appeared
in 1956. Another group of poets with a social agenda, such as
Robert Bly (1926-)
wrote poems sharply critical of the
Vietnam War. Yet another group are African-American poets—such as
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