Poetic Drive

How American poets have explored driving, in all its facets “Whither goest thou, America,” asked Jack Kerouac in On the Road , “in thy shiny car in the night?” For American poets, the act of driving has always harbored a critical dichotomy. It can express the thrill and the freedom of the open road, but it can also foster fears of ecological catastrophe, crashes, and police violence. In Poetic Drive , Joel Duncan examines the writings and experimental film collaborations of William Carlos Willia