Word: poemes
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Everything was quiet when she cleared her throat. In jeans, boots and braids, she resembled any other college student. But when she spoke, the packed Currier House's "fishbowl" and balcony went hush. When she finished reading her poem, "S M", she paused and asked the audience, "do you cry?" There was nervous laughter and nervous yesses. "It's so hard for you to say that...as my mother says, you'll cry soon enough. And the way things are looking you might as well get good practice...
Part of the group of literary and cultural iconoclasts known as the Beatniks, Ginsberg first gained popularity in 1956 after publishing his poem, "Howl," Ginsberg's other well known pieces include "Kaddish" and "A Supermarket in California...
During his program for WBCN yesterday, he recited his poem, "America," which includes the line, "America. . .go fuck yourself with your atomic bomb." Although WBCN officials were wary of the line, they went ahead and let Ginsberg read it anyway...
...marvelous like Mary Lou Retton's gymnastics are marvelous. Dance is becoming a sport, impressive and sometimes exciting. Sadder still, it is sometimes as inarticulate as a professional athlete. It is no longer the rhetoric of the body, the nuanced expression of the person in a physical poem. Even the truly great dancing shown from West Side Story and Sweet Charity lacks the stamp of personality which characterizes the dancing of Kelly and Astaire...
...than it was 134 years ago or a thousand, or the way it will be a thousand years hence, since its variety, beauty and novelty are always in the hands of people no different from those who strolled about the harbor or slept as Arnold scratched out his poem by the window? Everything depends on how one wishes to live one's life, which still requires the constancy Arnold promised his bride, and a good deal of courage besides. So we race wide-eyed into one more year, searching for the land of dreams that lies as near...