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Leftcoastzen
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What is it about certain titles on certain days catch your eye?

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tokorowilliamwallace
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters | Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg

But this is all speculation, mediation, nay, emasculation...I find in you a kindred absorption with identity, dramatic meaning, classic unity, and immortality: you pace a stage, yet sit in the boxes and watch. You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishable chaos, in sprawling nameless reality. Like myself, you deserve the Adlerian verdict...He who seeks all knowledge, and then all life and all power...He is egocentric. How paltry is the def.

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rather_be_reading
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Pickpick

Book 35
@Come-read-with-me sent me this one for my collection and I finally got around to reading it. I loved it! Every child should read it!

Cortg That‘s a LOT of LGB‘s! 4y
Come-read-with-me I just love your collection! RBG deserves a place on those shelves! 4y
rather_be_reading @Cortg haha ill have to tag u on a pic of my whole collection 4y
rather_be_reading @Come-read-with-me ty! she sure did! 4y
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Schnoebs
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Sad days... can we please let 2020 be done?

#rbg #ginsburg #rip

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TheNeverendingTBR
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I absolutely loved this, his writing is full of obscene and surreal imagery; my favourite was 'Death to Van Gogh's Ear!' which was politically dated but still very relevant and I liked what he had to say about money - being an illusion.

His poems aren't your traditional poems, they don't rhyme or anything, they're like a stream of thought and I now can see why Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century.

LitStephanie @TheNeverendingTBR I read "Howl"at some point and was not impressed. What did you think? 4y
TheNeverendingTBR @LitStephanie I've just began it actually, I'll put a review up soon; why didn't you like it? Any reason in particular? 4y
LitStephanie @TheNeverendingTBR, many of the images don't seem well thought out, like "who broke down crying in white gymnasiums naked and trembling before the machinery of other skeletons," and it does not seem condensed enough for poetry--goes on and on and on. Maybe just not my style, as it is a very popular poem. 4y
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TheNeverendingTBR @LitStephanie I loved it, I just turned this post onto my review of it. I appreciated your feedback! 🙋‍♂️ 4y
LitStephanie @TheNeverendingTBR I am glad you liked it! Will you share a favorite line? 4y
TheNeverendingTBR @LitStephanie Money! Money! Money! shrieking mad celestial money of illusion! Money made of nothing, starvation, suicide! Money of failure! Money of death!?Money against Eternity! and eternity‘s strong mills grind out vast paper of illusion. (Death to Van Gogh's Ear!) This poem was my highlight. 🙂 4y
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Bookwomble
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- and you there standing before me in the sunset, all your glory in your form!
A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely sunflower existence! a sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited grasping the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly breeze!
- "Sunflower Sutra"
#poetrymatters #sunflower @TheSpineView

TheSpineView 💜💜 5y
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RebelGrrrl
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters | Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg
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Fun fact: any Kerouac or Ginsberg I've read was part of college and I remember very little tbh. I discovered this book at the City Library yesterday as I'd been questing through the stacks looking for books that might fit with a book display idea. I started flipping through these pages and OMG I LOVE THIS BOOK. The window into their lives and friendship is such a treasure. Also I'm reminded that I really should try to write more letters...

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Bookwomble
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fortunately all the governments will fall
the only ones which won't fall are the good ones
and the good ones don't yet exist

- "Death to Van Gogh's Ear!"

Leftcoastzen Allen was awesome! 7y
Bookwomble @Leftcoastzen So I've learnt ☺ 7y
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Bookwomble
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Money had reckoned the soul of America
Congress broken thru to the precipice of Eternity
The President built a war machine which will vomit and rear up Russia out of Kansas
The American Century betrayed by a mad Senate which no longer sleeps with its wife

- "Death to Van Gogh's Ear!"

saresmoore Hang on. Wait. This is eerily/upsettingly apt. When did he write this one? 7y
Bookwomble @saresmoore I thought the same when I read it. He wrote it in 1957. The brilliance and tragedy of great literature, to be universally relevant. 7y
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Bookwomble
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"America hides mad meat
in refrigerator Britain"

Not what Ginsberg had in mind, but these words from "Europe! Europe!" resonate for me with the prospect of chlorine-washed chicken becoming a UK standard in the post-Brexit bonfire of EU regulations.