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...others, Herman Kahn, David Dellinger, and Allard Lowenstein. Ginsberg, in the Beat tradition of ignoring the world other people are talking about for his own vision of it, sang some very long Buddhist chants to the assembly, read from Kerouac's Mexico City Blues, and then from an elegiac poem on his friend's death, one that he had just been working on during his subway ride up to Columbia. That poem is one of three by Ginsberg that are reprinted, as postscripts, to Scenes Along the Road. The poem he read from is called "Memory Gardens": covered with yellow...
...think the cosmic significance of the Scituate Sea Monster episode has not been emphasized enough, and one dreary night in the Widener stacks I penned this little poem about the Monster, which might be of interest...
...already undergone yet another radicalization while awaiting trial. On a trip to Hanoi to bring back three U.S. prisoners, he had been caught in an air raid and found himself hurtling into a shelter with a Vietnamese baby in his arms. The experience became both a scar and a poem: "In my arms, Father, in a moment's grace The Messiah of all my tears I bore, reborn, a Hiroshima child from hell...
...that the world could blow up the next second. And because we know this, we younger kids will try harder, because if we don't, we just won't have any more world." Issue No. 2, now at the printer's, contains a poem by Mary Mattos, 12, and Maryann Micchelli, 11, who un-cynically calculate the price of schooling and the value of happiness...
...Some poem. Some razzberry. In those days-and for a decade to come-people disappeared forever behind the walls of Moscow's Lubianka Prison for much less. Inevitably, Stalin heard about Mandelstam's poem. Yet it was not until 1934 that he had the poet arrested. Even then, it was difficult to do away with a man as acclaimed as Mandelstam. In addition, influential friends put in the good word for him. The result was that Mandelstam was released and exiled with his wife to live as best he could in the provinces. For three years...