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Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber | Allen Ginsberg
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'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garca Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?' Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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squirrelbrain
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Allen Ginsberg was a Beat Poet - this one was a bit weird for me...! 😁

#youcantstopthebeat
#septembersins

rockpools ...but what a title! 😱 5y
squirrelbrain Yes @RachelO - isn‘t it just?! 🤪 5y
Cathythoughts Ah stop ! That‘s mad ! 🤔👍🏻 (edited) 5y
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i.z.booknook
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Bailedbailed

I feel bad about bailing on this because he‘s such an iconic poet I feel like you have to like his work 😔 and it is good and really interesting the way he writes about America but I just can‘t follow? It feels like wading through mud? And I don‘t want to force myself to finish it when I could be reading something else...

Mdargusch Bailing is so hard. 😕 6y
i.z.booknook @Mdargusch I know it feels so wrong! 😩 6y
CouronneDhiver Run! It‘s totally ok... there are lots of other books to love 6y
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