Tag: Allen Ginsberg
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* learning to Howl with Allen Ginsberg
Had to read and discuss Allen Ginsberg’s Howl this week in one of my classes. Kinda went like this: I have gone back and forth on the poem Howl since I first read it at eighteen. I shared with my classmates how I went to San Diego on spring break once and spent five days […]
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* the friday influence
The sawdust that fell from your hair, I find in my poem today. (Monochord #330, Yannis Ritsos) *** For today’s Friday Influence, I present the work of the Greek poet Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990). The above is from a series entitled “Monochords” that was written in one month while in exile, August 1979. Reading […]
The Friday Influence 