Further Reading on American Poets:
Richard Brautigan: allpoetry.com/column/12195640-Trout-Fishing-In-America-Richard-Brautigans-Place-in-U.S.-Literat-by-Jamie-Hamann |
"Burroughs has said that the death of his wife gave him a literary vocation. He felt that he had been possessed by an invader, "The Ugly Spirit," who controlled him at the time of the accident and maneuvered him into a lifelong struggle, "In which I have had no choice except to write my way out." Ann Charters From the William Burroughs Biographical Introduction in "The Portable Beat Reader."
A poem is like a silver mine. Silver does not usually sit on the top of the earth to be grabbed by any prospector. The miner needs to dig, excavate, and search for precious metal. Poetry requires the reader to do the same.
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Ferlinghetti takes the reader along for the ride. The reader stands next to the acrobat and sees his struggles and feels his emotions, and throughout realizes that the acrobat is the poet.
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Further Reading on American Poets:
Richard Brautigan: allpoetry.com/column/12195640-Trout-Fishing-In-America-Richard-Brautigans-Place-in-U.S.-Literat-by-Jamie-Hamann |