POEM FOR RUTH WEISS
she grooves with time
day time, night time
be bop jazz time
dances with timeless time
all rhythm no rhyme
birds in flight flap their wings
copulate with the wind
a magician’s illusion where
time and …{read more}
6 Poems by A.D. Winans
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29 Russell St.
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It’s been about ten years now since I saw Beat legends Neal and Carolyn Cassady’s house. It was such a thrill for me; I can remember it perfectly. My old friends Kirstin and Colin, from Alaska had just moved down …{read more}
Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek – The Piano Poems: Live From San Francisco
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Piano Poems: Live in San Francisco
A collaboration between Ray Manzarek and Michael McClure, this live performance, recorded at an old San Francisco church, features both new and older poems, with …{read more}
David Gitin: 5 From San Francisco in the Sixties
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Outstretched Arms
pumice the bone smoothberry juice illusion of bloodto cover loss
belly of the moonwe penetratewhat Venus
do we carve?herbs and drugs do not restoreterritories of resurrection
Earth poised in somatelevision chroniclesmissile finger fascination
sea-scorpionsand horseshoe crabswill survive us …{read more}
A. D. Winans Looks Back at the Beat Generation
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Generally speaking, counter-culture describes the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group or subculture in conflict with those of the cultural mainstream of the day, a visible phenomenon that reaches critical mass and persists for some time.
The …{read more}
Remembering Poet Kirby Doyle
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Kirby Doyle & the Snows of Yesteryear by Michael McClure
In 1958 Kirby Doyle’s menage on Sacramento Street, in a basement apartment of the no-man’s land between the wealthy on the Hill and the Black Fillmore District, had a Francois …{read more}