Huck Gutman has a number of web pages which are of interest.

Political commentary on American politics and on international affairs

Modern Poetry: RealAudio discussions of ten modern poets

Reading Poems: How to get started

Reading Poems II: You CAN read a poem

Indian Music: Poems of Rabindranath Tagore (with a Real Audio performance by Swapan Gupta )

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Student compiled page on Major Events in Twentieth Century History  [English 252, Spring 2002}

English 14, Introduction to Poetry

English 151 Modern Poetry
One of the richest flowerings of poetic innovation and poetic achievement in the history of the English language occurred during the first third of the twentieth century. The modern period, as it came to be known, represents one of the high points of poetry.  Driven by the desire to "Make it new," in the famous counsel of poet Ezra Pound, the poets of the early years of the century envisioned new functions for poetic inquiry, new forms for poetry, and a whole new array of poetic language. Their works scintillate, and their poems are always exciting, innovative, challenging, and rewarding. This course examines a broad variety of modern poets, including William Butler Yeats, Wilfred Owen, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, e. e. cummings, W. H. Auden, Langston Hughes, and Elizabeth Bishop. The modern period was also noteworthy for its remarkably fertile production in painting, sculpture, fiction, film, architecture and music. Brief explorations of the richness of modern art in general will be part of class investigations.
 

English 181 Poetic Revolutions and the Modern World
 This course will consider the possibility that art can affect human society by examining poets of the nineteenth and twentieth century whose work appears to have created or made possible dramatic and revolutionary changes in culture. The course will address several central questions: What kinds of relations exist between creative artists and the historical world in which they live? Can works of art create major cultural change and, if so, how does a work of art ‘change’ a society and those who live in it? What role can and does art play in revolution on the political, cultural, perceptual level of human existence? Writers studied include British, American, French, Greek, German and Russian poets: William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Charles Baudelaire, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rainer Maria Rilke, Guillaume Apollinaire, Constantin Cavafy, Vladimir Mayakovsky, William Carlos Williams, Bertholt Brecht, Amiri Baraka, and  Adrienne Rich.

COURSES TAUGHT: Nineteenth century American poetry, modern American poetry, contemporary American poetry, and poetry in translation.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Outsider in the House, Jointly authored with Congressman Bernard Sanders

Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault

Recent publication in Monthly Review (October 2002): An interview with Harry Magdoff.
Also available on the web:
    Creating a Just Society: Lessons from Planning in the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.

Recently published on the web, from the Walt Whitman Encyclopedia:

• Walt Whitman's "Drum-Taps"

• Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric"

PROGRAM CONNECTIONS:         UVM  TRIO

PRIMARY FIELDS OF RESEARCH:

Poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; also, international relations and current politics.

CURRENT PROJECTS:

Professor Huck Gutman is a columnist for The Statesman, the oldest and most important daily newspaper in Kolkata (Calcutta) India.   He is a regular contributor to Dawn, Pakistan's most important English-lanugage newspaper, and a featured columnist on Common Dreams, the progressive news site.    His recent columns can be viewed at Statesman Commentary Page -- Huck Gutman.

He has just completed two articles, one on William Carlos Williams and one on Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself".

He is also writing up another interview with Harry Magdoff for Monthly Review's Summer issue, with the tentative title, "Capitalism, Imperialism, the United States -- and Iraq."
 
He also serves as Senior Aide to Congressman Bernard Sanders (I-VT).

Huck Gutman with some of his prize-winning tomatoes