Tag Archives: Allen Ginsberg

mutilated english: decode it man

If one is searching for springs of language undefiled by pedantry, politics, or motivational vector analysis, what more likely place to look than the domain of belles-lettres? For is it not reasonable to assume that poets and novelists- craftspeople who … Continue reading

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cannabis: our reefer sadness

Life with a spliff more surreal, exciting, profound? Recapturing the moment before the soul came into the world when it was sky-high. Maybe cannabis and other psychotropics open doors as Aldous Huxley asserted or Carlos Castaneda, but its a high … Continue reading

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nash

As a postscript to the series on America in 1939: the anatomy of change. Ogden Nash was a specialist in what could be called light verse Americana that fir squarely into the canon of the The New Yorker with his … Continue reading

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patchen: painting poems

by Art Chantry: seemingly forgotten and long overlooked is kenneth patchen. this guy is one of those american originals, a guy who hacked out his own path through the wilderness and just kept hacking away his entire life. people either … Continue reading

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tunnel vision: in like flynn

There are lots of days when the earth stands still. Motionless. Inert. Lifeless. Of course, its not for pleasure, or sport, or enjoyment; it has a revelatory characteristic, inextricably linked to the divine. It is holy and in the service … Continue reading

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one that got away

Must have felt good for him to drop the f-bomb. Inside all that vague space of harmony has to be a seething mass of rage somewhere within. Buddhism has been so commodified by American pop culture, it has spawned an … Continue reading

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back to the futurism: cleansing joy of combat

F.P. Marinetti and futurism. The grand effort to wipe out every vestige of the past. As the poet Guillaume Apollinaire wrote in 1913, it was the first collective effort to suppress history in the name of art… While Filippo Marinetti … Continue reading

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breakfast in america: pass on the second helpings

Obama and those “new democracies.” They have to loosen up, chill out, get down and let if flow. But what about the old dogs in the area, or are they granted a free pass, a get out of jail card, … Continue reading

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millenarian: deprivation madness

In times of stress, look for the Prophets of an earthly paradise. Is America ready for its own millennial cult? The United States today is plainly in what Anthony F.C. Wallace termed the period of cultural distortion. Statistics do show … Continue reading

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a rising tide sinks all ships

The velocity of money. a rising tide sinks all ships. That is, capitalism and democracy have always had an uneasy relationship. They are not partners naturally suited to one another for the most part. Something of an artificial idea; like … Continue reading

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