Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harrison Coombs was not doing at all well in English C. It wasn't the grade, he reminded himself--they usually gives you a B-if you do the work--but the principle of the thing. A B--in English C never qualified anyones as "deep...
...Professor MacLeish's third lecture on poetry that saved him. Like the Renaissance discovering the Greeks, like Goethe discovering Shakespeare, like the nineteenth century discovering nature, Harrison discovered Oriental poetry. He had run across the cryptic, ordered verses of the haiku before in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums; but since he had read the novel for sex (it was disappointing) their beauty had escaped him. Now, however, he was fascinated with the idea of three line verses which did not require grammar, meter, rhyme, or even logical progression. As Harrison told his roommate after the lecture, "All you gotta...
...Harrison's roommate was skeptical...
...instance," said Harrison, "Climbing up Cold Mountain Path/Cold Mountain Path goes on and on/ long gorge choked with scree and boulders/wide creek and mist-blurred grass/moss is slippery though there's been no rain/pine sings but there's no wind/who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds...
...said Harrison, "that's Han Shan. I got it out of The Dharma Bums. The reason I quoted it was because you have to hear Oriental poems a couple of times before you get used to them. Listen: Red ivy on brown brick/spike heels catch on cobblestone walks/ pennants hang limp on barroom walls/Christ, if my love were in my arms and I in bed again...