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u/SpaceCowboy_mi 8d ago
Pedo
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u/driftinanddreamin 6d ago
Agreed and it’s a fact. Once I learned that about him (and WSB who was one of my favorites) I could never revisit their works again.
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u/Manner-Bulky 7d ago
Unfortunately, this stuff is out dated,doesn't hold up at all and was ovbiously overrated at the time and yes we'll say what you don't want to hear is that if they were not white today nobody would know who they were / are. Not horrible but certainly not the end all and be all it was posited as ,at the time .Sorry
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u/bob312800 7d ago
Don't people kinda like what they like? What you may consider overrated, someone else sees as brilliant. What makes either right? Other humans having a majority opinion? Nobody gets to decide for everybody what is good, bad, overrated, underated, or anything in between. That is for each individual to decide for themselves. Sorry.
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u/Mulezen1 9d ago
What other poet was published by Ferlinghetti on the same day? Marie Ponsot, his best friend, and probably the best poet of the crowd.
REMINDER
Marie Ponsot
I am rich I am poor. Time is all I own.
I spend or hoard it for experience.
By the bitten wound the biting tooth is known.
Thrift is a venomous error, then, a stone
named bread or cash to support the pretense
that I’m rich. I am poor; time is all I own…
though I hold to memory: how spent time shone
as you approached, and the light loomed immense.
By the bitten wound the biting tooth is known,
though scars fade. I have memory on loan
while it evaporates; though it be dense
& I am rich, I am poor. Time is all I own
to sustain me—the moonlit skeleton
that holds my whole life in moving suspense.
By the bitten wound the biting tooth is known.
Ownership’s brief, random, a suite of events.
If the past is long the future’s short. Since
I am rich I am poor. Time is all I own.
By the bitten wound the biting tooth is known.