Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WALK), threats (TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED), and newsstand alarms (PLANE CRASH AT TEL AVIV). Finally, Le Clézio's Everyman goes numb-nature's last defense. Spoken words become mere sounds, a meaningless buzz in the ears. The most urgent printed words-a poem by Baudelaire, a proclamation of war-have no more profound effect than the advice he reads (without really reading) on a book of matches: PLEASE CLOSE COVER BEFORE STRIKING...
...which involve legendary yellow beasts as well as the great white bird, and a bloody, obscene war between a species of monkeys and "rat-dogs." Doctors X and Y try to make him remember his wife, his family, his name and occupation-what they call reality. A fantastic prose-poem myth struggles against, and alternates with, the dry formulas of a psychiatric case history...
...wide range of artistic interests. His most recent concern has been the relationship between poetry, space, and movement. He recently inscribed a poem on four cardboard disks, so that by moving each disk he could give the poem a different meaning...
...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...
...Kerouac's death brought forth the last Beat poem...