Tag Archives: Kenneth Rexroth

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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utopia: naturally good but prone to mischief

Today, Thomas More’s Utopia, written in 1516, is interpreted as a reflection on the ideal state with More a representative of a humanistic and expansive outlook that embodied the Renaissance intellectual milieu. This may be a mistaken assumption; with More … Continue reading

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the horse has already vaulted

The unfettered experience. Its the zipper, stupid. But, does promiscuity necessarily involve forms of immorality? Is there a value in promiscuity if it is located in the pursuit of ideals? .Promiscuity in a Western context seems to have a negative … Continue reading

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peeking around the corner: prophet cafe politics

On December 10, 1926, at 9 P.M. at the Prophet cafe, the surrealists met to decide whether to form an alliance with the Communist party. Antonin Artaud, for whom all political parties were equally irrelevant, displayed a noticeable lack of … Continue reading

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Interbeing & Deep ecology : nirvanic discontent?

At Borobudur, unlike the Acropolis, the landscape and the architecture are not contending with one another; they are in harmony. At Borobudur the builder has completely hidden the hill, from its flanks to its crown, but in hiding it he … Continue reading

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Interbeing & Deep ecology : nirvanic discontent?

At Borobudur, unlike the Acropolis, the landscape and the architecture are not contending with one another; they are in harmony. At Borobudur the builder has completely hidden the hill, from its flanks to its crown, but in hiding it he … Continue reading

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LISTENING TO THE BACK BEAT

” …and, escorted by two police cars, the group drove to a ball park on the corner of Army Street and Portero Avenue, where they played a game against the Bank of California ‘Nuggets’, to prove to the squares that … Continue reading

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UNTHINKING WITH THE SUBTERRANEANS: “WE DIG IT ALL”

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in … Continue reading

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