so what lawrence ferlinghetti stuff do you recommend me?

[sirb...@hotmail.com]

i's been lookin over at amazon and he's got like hundreds of books to
his name, stunned as i am by such number i seek your kind and wobbly
assistance so that i might... well i can't really be arsed to buy books
but mebbe if you say it be magnificient i may consider, just like i
cuntsider women of suggestive curves.

[jswa...@yahoo.com]

I have not read it, but according to Wikapedia and a lot of people
heard from:
"Ferlinghetti's best-known collection of poetry is 'A Coney Island of
the Mind',
which has been translated into nine languages."

[W. Lydecker]

I have seen the best minds of our ng destroyed by madness!
Or was this from that Jewish guy?

[Frank R.A.J. Maloney]

W. Lydecker wrote:
> I have seen the best minds of our ng destroyed by madness!
> Or was this from that Jewish guy?

By whom Waldo means Allen Ginsberg and his great book-length poem /Howl/.
Ferlinghetti was once arrested for obscenity at a reading of /Howl/. And
indeed the legal fight over the book helped to shape obscenity laws in the
U.S.

Also required reading for anyone interested in American literature post-WW
II is Ginsberg's long and deeply moving poem "Kaddish", dedicated to his
mother Naomi.

He appears as himself in the only true Beat film, _Pull My Daisy_ (1959) and
has appeared in several other films including Dylan's _Renaldo and Clara_
(1978).

--
Frank in Seattle
____

Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
"Millennium hand and shrimp."

[David Oberman]

"Frank R.A.J. Maloney" <fr...@blarg.net> wrote:

>By whom Waldo means Allen Ginsberg and his great book-length poem /Howl/.
>Ferlinghetti was once arrested for obscenity at a reading of /Howl/. And
>indeed the legal fight over the book helped to shape obscenity laws in the
>U.S.
>
>Also required reading for anyone interested in American literature post-WW
>II is Ginsberg's long and deeply moving poem "Kaddish", dedicated to his
>mother Naomi.

Jacques Barzun tells of his experiences with Ginsberg at Columbia:

[quote] Allen Ginsberg was a student of Lionel's, and of mine, not in
our joint course, but separately. But we joined together to save him
from the penalties of the law, because he was involved in a very bad
affair with an older man who seduced him sexually and used him to help
dispose of the corpse of a man that this fellow had killed. Poor
Allen, aged 17 or 18, helped to dump this body into the Hudson River.
Well, was he in trouble there! With the help of the dean of the
college, who also knew Allen, the dean, Lionel, and I waited on the
district attorney who fortunately was a Columbia graduate and we said,
"This youth is really innocent, although he committed an awful blunder
and he's also very gifted in the English Department." We didn't say he
was a poet or that might have queered his chances! And that it would
be a catastrophe to turn him over to a criminal court and put him in
jail. We had to go again to a judge in Brooklyn, I think, because
Allen came from Brooklyn or something. Anyway, the district attorney
wasn't enough, so we went to a second hearing, which was much more
sticky. But Allen was let off.

He showed me his writing. He'd send me things. He sent me a letter
from India, where I think he got a fellowship to spend a year or so.
He sent me a letter that read, I've just met a wonderful guru who can
read minds. "I want you to" -- Allen had a way of saying "I want you
to do this, I want you to do that" -- "I want you to get him a
position in the Philosophy Department." I wrote back, "Dear Allen, the
members of the Philosophy Department want nothing so little as to have
their minds read." [/quote]

[W. Lydecker]

<< "By whom Waldo means Allen Ginsberg and his great book-length poem

/Howl/." >> -

I like the bit: "angel headed hipsters burning for the ancient
heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night..."

[Frank R.A.J. Maloney]

By coincidence, a quotation from /Howl/ was used as the Final Jeopardy
answer in the "Jeopardy" episode I watched last night; two out of the three
contestants got it wrong.

[sirb...@hotmail.com]

Frank R.A.J. Maloney ha escrito:

> W. Lydecker wrote:
> > << "By whom Waldo means Allen Ginsberg and his great book-length poem
> > /Howl/." >> -
> >
> > I like the bit: "angel headed hipsters burning for the ancient
> > heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night..."
>
> By coincidence, a quotation from /Howl/ was used as the Final Jeopardy
> answer in the "Jeopardy" episode I watched last night; two out of the three
> contestants got it wrong.
>
> --
> Frank in Seattle
> ____

absolutely nothing surprising bout that. btw howl is available on mp3
on p2p networks.