*known as the missing beat: part of the San Francisco Beat scene-generation
*claims to be born under the sign of Capricorn
*published two books of poetry
The Love
Book
Wood Alchemy
*Kerouac based the character 'Romona Schwartz'
in his book Big Sur on Lenore
Viewpoints:
~Poetry is never Compromised~
Poetry is never compromise. It is the translation of a vision,an
illumination,an experience. If you compromise your vision you become a blind prophet.
1. no point in poetry
which exists(mainly) as an exercise in dexterity
2. craft is valuable
a. serves as a midwife for
-clarity
-beauty
-vision
3. Poetry
-alive
-medium
of vision and experience
-not
necessarily(so) comfortable
-not necessarily safe
b. academic poetry
breeds offensive to mainstream- doers and shelvers-
trust compilers
4. There are no
barriers to poetry or prophecy
barrier breakers by nature:
bursts of perception
lines of infinity
barrier of self/barrier being self
protective
barriers to true thought
*self-awareness*
A society afraid of itself is afraid of its poets. polariting possibilities of life
and death exist as a constant consciousness.- atrophies to pysche(1967)
