Paroles was first published in French 1949. Selections from Paroles English translation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti first appeared in book form in the USAParoles was first published in French 1949. Selections from Paroles English translation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti first appeared in book form in the USA by City Lights Books in San Francisco 1958. The poems comprise nearly half of the complete Paroles. This 1965 Penguin Modern European Poets edition has a good Introduction by Ferlinghetti, 1964.
Read Selections from Paroles and then listen to Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revistited, and Blonde On Blonde....more
Willy and the hand shift. The road is long, the book is trim. Short and sweet, the generation Beat. The karma of the Dharma.
LEW "Cadillacs are always iWilly and the hand shift. The road is long, the book is trim. Short and sweet, the generation Beat. The karma of the Dharma.
LEW "Cadillacs are always in a hurry Call it a watchpocket book Look at these buildings What are they DOING here This arroyo & that sand I last saw Amarillo as a soldier smoking my first cigar & Roosevelt died
Roosevelt had a dirty asshole so we had Pearl Harbor Hitler had a dirty ass so we had Buchenwald Senator McCarthy had a dirty asshole & he died Not one cowboy in Texas has a clean asshole But there is one in Las Vegas Alexander Pope had a dirty asshole T S Eliot prays for the dirty asshole T S Eliot's fog had a dirty asshole The last time I saw Paris I had a dirty asshole Pres Eisenhower plays golf with a dirty asshole No insult intended to his partner"
There are several pages scribed over hundreds of miles on the trip across America
It is good to revisit this collection of Old Bush Songs. As with literature the songs illuminate the era and people and certainly the place. Convicts It is good to revisit this collection of Old Bush Songs. As with literature the songs illuminate the era and people and certainly the place. Convicts and Bushrangers Immigrants and New-Chums The Goldfields The Stockmen Of Australia The Stringybark Cockatoo A Cry From The North Shanties On The Wallaby The Springtime It Brings On The Shearing
Recommended addition to the swag when travelling and camping....more
Wow! Library copy. To buy. Also available in other formats for Lockdown. ISBN (pbk) 9780 7022 50132 ISBN (PDF) 9780 7022 52570 ISBN (ePub) 9780 7022 52587Wow! Library copy. To buy. Also available in other formats for Lockdown. ISBN (pbk) 9780 7022 50132 ISBN (PDF) 9780 7022 52570 ISBN (ePub) 9780 7022 52587 ISBN (Kindle) 9780 7022 52594
p.33 Long Story Short This is brilliant. This poem takes a light to holding grievances. They eventually destroy the holder.
"The Book of Grievances has its roots In singular griefs, A man has his list, his hit list. Writes down times and places where the knife went in, was twisted. Writes it down in the ample folder of his heart as we call it, to be underlined in red and revisited. The gun he keeps oiled is also there in the heart's darkness.
He takes it up and aims. Somebody falls, only he knows who and where. In the place where grief began and the wrong was done. When the dead are as many as his griefs and the books are balanced he too will be done.
The book, like the gun, is as warmly secret in him as hoarded sweets. Along with the rough plan sometime soon to light out to the Territory, and once gone send back no message."...more
I picked up a 1974 edition, Aldine Paperbacks in near new condition. Poems, Stories, Essays. This selection of BBC Radio Broadcasts were mostly for theI picked up a 1974 edition, Aldine Paperbacks in near new condition. Poems, Stories, Essays. This selection of BBC Radio Broadcasts were mostly for the Welsh region of the B.B.C. Preface Part 1 Reminiscences of Childhood (First Version) Reminiscences of Childhood (Second Version) Quite Early One Morning Memories of Christmas Holiday Memory How to begin a Story The Crumbs of One Man's Year The Festival Exhibition, 1951 The International Eisteddfod A Visit to America Laugharne Return Journey Wilfred Owen Walter de la Mare as a Prose Writer Sir Philip Sidney A Dearth of Comic Writers The English Festival of Spoken Poetry On Reading One's Own Poems Welsh Poets Wales and the Artist Three Poems On Poetry Notes
Five stars alone for the first story I read, A Visit to America. An hilarious jibe at the number of British writers, poets and experts on obscure subjects that were enticed on lecture tours across America....more
I bought this Signet Classic edition of Leaves of Grass in the late 1960s or early 1970s, new for $1:25. It's now old and brown and brittle pages are I bought this Signet Classic edition of Leaves of Grass in the late 1960s or early 1970s, new for $1:25. It's now old and brown and brittle pages are hanging in there, the cover has fallen off and become a bookmark. I haven't ever read L. o. G from cover to cover sequentially. My favourite has long been 'Song of the Open Road'. This morning, 2019, I was pleased to find 'I Sing the Body Electric' pop up on YouTube which rejuvenated my love of the human race. https://youtu.be/kRHbYPLq0fQ
I was inspired to buy a new Modern Library Classics Paperback Edition, 768 pages. The "Death-Bed" Edition Introduction by William Carlos Williams ISBN 9780679783428
While I wait for this new copy to arrive I returned to my old copy and read 'Fancies at Navesink', which include the poems 'You Tides With Ceaseless Swell', 'Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning', 'And Yet Not You Alone', 'Proudly the Flood Comes In', and 'By That Long Scan of Waves', that are just so perfect in keeping with Rachel Carson's wonderful non-fiction 'Under the Sea-Wind'. This is one example of the beauty and expanse of Leaves Of Grass.
My new copy has arrived. Now to enjoy reading Leaves Of Grass again from cover to cover....more
