December 2011
30 posts
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“Death is a concrete wall.”
– Allen Ginsberg
Dec 30th
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“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek...”
– William Burroughs
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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What is Poetry? →
A new collection of aphorisms in free verse just published this April by Anansi Press in Canada.
Dec 27th
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“I met Einstein in a dream Springtime on Princeton lawn grass I kneeled down...”
– New York, December 14, 1972 Allen Ginsberg
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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“As far as I’m concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get...”
– Jack Kerouac
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate’s so easy...”
– Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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“Jack went into the kitchen with his wife, and his wife told him all about how...”
– Allen Ginsberg in a conversation on meeting William Carlos Williams
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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“All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down...”
– On Top by Gary Snyder
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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“The sun is folding, cars stall and rise beyond the window. The workmen leave...”
– A New World by Amiri Baraka
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The...”
– Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums
Dec 10th
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In Retrospekt: An Interview with Joyce Johnson →
Memoirs are a wonderful form because real lives are stranger than fiction. Their stories are shaggier; they are not as shaped and predictable as a lot of fiction. I think that is what keeps the genre fresh and people keep inventing new forms to tell their stories.
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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“I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give...”
– Jack Kerouac
Dec 6th
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“The aroma of Mr. Rochesters cigars among the flowers Bursting through I...”
– from Teacher - Your Body, My Kaballah by Elise Cowen
Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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“Praise for Marie Ponsot All praise the midweek...”
– All Praise by Hettie Jones
Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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Kerouac's 'lost' debut novel is published 70 years... →
“It is not a great work of literature. It would never be published today if it wasn’t by Kerouac, but it is fascinating as an insight into him as a writer … He was just jotting down ideas that he would explore with much more gusto in his later work. There is no real narrative, not much happens, but there are flashes of his later work.”
Dec 1st
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