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Re: SINAN ANTOON: IRAQI AUTHOR
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Saturday, August 22 2015, 2:24:22 (UTC)
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"...sounds very interesting...personally I have no use for beat poets...but this guy was the real deal, whether YOU (meaning me) liked him or not."


-- I like some of Allen Ginsberg's work, especially "HOWL", and also Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "A Coney Island of the Mind". And I love hanging out and reading at Ferlinghetti's bookstore, City Lights, on Columbus Ave. in S.F.'s North Beach just a walk down from Coppola's restaurant. But that's pretty much it. The rest of the Beats now seem pretentious to me... and redundant.

This is Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "A Coney Island of the Mind":


A Coney Island of the mind


In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
the people of the world
exactly at the moment when
they first attained the title of
'suffering humanity'

They writhe upon the page
in a veritable rage
of adversity

Heaped up
groaning with babies and bayonets
under cement skies
in an abstract landscape of blasted trees
bent statues bats wings and beaks
slippery gibbets

cadavers and carnivorous cocks
and all the final hollering monsters
of the
'imagination of disaster'

they are so bloody real
it is as if they really still existed

And they do

Only the landscape is changed

They still are ranged along the roads
plagued by legionaires
false windmills and demented roosters


They are the same people
only further from home
on freeways fifty lanes wide
on a concrete continent
spaced with bland billboards
illustrating imbecile illusions of happiness

The scene shows fewer tumbrils
but more strung-out citizens
in painted cars
and they have strange license plates
and engines
that devour America



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