The Poetic Hipsters of New Brunswick: A short memoir
By Joe Weil
Insert blow job and Reagan, or have Reagan giving a blow job to Allen Ginsberg, while Tom Waits is playing for the tortured and the misunderstood, and people will think you are a fucking genius.
May
22
2013
Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays
By Levi Rubeck
The breadth of that poetic growth is in itself a fantastic teacher.
You want to have an open sesame for every soul you encounter. You want something to open in them and for them, and when you are at your best, you don’t care if they ever say thank you.
Apr
18
2012
You want to have an open sesame for every soul you encounter. You want something to open in them and for them, and when you are at your best, you don’t care if they ever say thank you.
I’d like you, for a moment, to think of writing not as a calling or gift or pipe dream, not even a profession or hobby. Instead, I’d like you to think of writing as a habit.
Apr
10
2012
I’d like you, for a moment, to think of writing not as a calling or gift or pipe dream, not even a profession or hobby. Instead, I’d like you to think of writing as a habit.
I’ve been thinking about what Robert Kelly wrote in the early 60s about each image in a poem having “its field of force, its shadow moving darkly through the poem.”
Apr
05
2012
I’ve been thinking about what Robert Kelly wrote in the early 60s about each image in a poem having “its field of force, its shadow moving darkly through the poem.”