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The poetry of John Hoffman
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Will Dockery
Sep 9, 2015, 8:49:48 AM9/9/15
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I am witness to the threshing of the grain / John Hoffman
I am witness to the threshing of the grain
the man of corn
hanging
from a dry oak bough
Read more of this poem at:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/i-am-witness-threshing-grain
Excerpted for information, education, historic, discussion and other fair use purposes.
From
http://www.dharmabeat.com/kerouaccorner.html
"...John Hoffman had become an underground legend by the mid-1950s, and his surviving twenty-nine short poems, collected under the title Journey to the End, were similar to Lamantia's in their surrealism. Phillip Lamantia read a selection of Hoffman's poems, rather than his own, at the Six Gallery poetry event in San Francisco, on Friday, October 7, 1955, where Allen Ginsberg first performed Howl. John Hoffman was the poet friend of Philip Lamantia and Gerd Stern. He had died, aged 21, in Mexico. Gerd Stern describes meeting John Hoffman at the San Remo bar in New York and taking a sea voyage on a Norwegian ship to Rio de Janeiro around 1950 during which they were both "writing poetry like mad." He says that "[John] was found on the beach at Zihuatanejo in Mexico dead..."
-Dave Moore
I am witness to the threshing of the grain
the man of corn
hanging
from a dry oak bough
Read more of this poem at:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/i-am-witness-threshing-grain
Excerpted for information, education, historic, discussion and other fair use purposes.
From
http://www.dharmabeat.com/kerouaccorner.html
"...John Hoffman had become an underground legend by the mid-1950s, and his surviving twenty-nine short poems, collected under the title Journey to the End, were similar to Lamantia's in their surrealism. Phillip Lamantia read a selection of Hoffman's poems, rather than his own, at the Six Gallery poetry event in San Francisco, on Friday, October 7, 1955, where Allen Ginsberg first performed Howl. John Hoffman was the poet friend of Philip Lamantia and Gerd Stern. He had died, aged 21, in Mexico. Gerd Stern describes meeting John Hoffman at the San Remo bar in New York and taking a sea voyage on a Norwegian ship to Rio de Janeiro around 1950 during which they were both "writing poetry like mad." He says that "[John] was found on the beach at Zihuatanejo in Mexico dead..."
-Dave Moore
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