Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hippie art, with its improvised music and irrational posters, its spontaneous light shows and ditto-machine "automatic" writing, its quippy axioms and somnambulant dances, relies more on inspiration than discipline. Says San Francisco Poet Jack Gilbert: "They have the courage to take one step-but then they come to a crazy dead stop. They want instant entertainment without any effort. There is a lack of tension in the mind; and how can you have decent art without tension...
...into his very brain cells, hear and feel his blood and lymph coursing through their channels. It is this sense of intense perception that stays with most hippies and, in part, sustains their fondness for bright colors, flowers and bells. "Have you ever heard yourself move?" asks Hippie Poet Richard Brautigan...
...Massachusetts Bay Colony was hardly the place to look for a poet. It was an offshoot of England's Puritan century-righteous, suspicious, humorless and stern. The most trivial event seemed like a personal message from God to be read as a rebuke or reward...
...America's first poet is to be found among the Puritan settlers. She was Anne Bradstreet, a high-spirited girl from a wealthy family, whose work is being published as part of a Harvard University Press series on American cultural history...
...Literary Series Lecture: Robert Lowell, poet, reading from his own work. Sanders Theatre...