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All of the expected City Lights favorites are here -- Ginsberg, Kerouac, Rexroth, Patchen, di Prima. The pleasure was in the surprises -- some highlights:
Malcolm Lowry:
"Thoughts leave the pitiless city;/Yet ships themselves are iron and have no pity;/Wile men have hearts and sides that strain and rust."
I'd also recommend Lowry's "The Volcano is Dark" on page 83.
Phillip Lamantia from "Voice of the Earth Mediums"
"We are truly fed up/with mental machines of peace & war/ nuclear monoxide brains, ca ...more
Malcolm Lowry:
"Thoughts leave the pitiless city;/Yet ships themselves are iron and have no pity;/Wile men have hearts and sides that strain and rust."
I'd also recommend Lowry's "The Volcano is Dark" on page 83.
Phillip Lamantia from "Voice of the Earth Mediums"
"We are truly fed up/with mental machines of peace & war/ nuclear monoxide brains, ca ...more
