#john beer

[garadinervi]

Robert Lax, [never] [from 'New Poems', Edited by Emil Antonucci with Journeyman Press, New York, NY, 1962], in Poems (1962-1997), Edited with an Introduction by John Beer, Wave Books, Seattle, WA, 2013, Limited Edition of 300 copies, p. 32 [© The Estate of Robert Lax]

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(excerpt) The Waste Land by John Beer

[Image ID: black text on a white background which reads “Oh we’ll meet again / When all the rained out faces / And all the bomb-scarred places / Kiss me kiss me kiss me / Under the telegraphic moon / And I won’t get up, I won’t / Get up, I’ll never, never, never” /End ID]

[garadinervi]

Robert Lax, [word] [from 'New Poems', Edited by Emil Antonucci with Journeyman Press, New York, NY, 1962], in Poems (1962-1997), Edited with an Introduction by John Beer, Wave Books, Seattle, WA, 2013, Limited Edition of 300 copies, p. 10 [© The Estate of Robert Lax]

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Robert Lax, Poems (1962-1997), Edited with an Introduction by John Berer, Wave Books, Seattle, WA, 2013

[garadinervi]

Robert Lax, [The Maximum Capacity] [from 'New Poems', Edited by Emil Antonucci with Journeyman Press, New York, NY, 1962], in Poems (1962-1997), Edited with an Introduction by John Beer, Wave Books, Seattle, WA, 2013, Limited Edition of 300 copies, p. 9 [© The Estate of Robert Lax]

[garadinervi]

Robert Lax, Poems (1962-1997), Edited with an Introduction by John Beer, Wave Books, Seattle, WA, 2013, Limited Edition of 300 copies

[thesingingknives]

Once more in the city I cannot name, the boat city, the city of light, the city that endures its fall, the city of pleasures and vicissitudes, the skier’s city, Fun City, the city under the sky, city of crime and vegetables, Pornograph City, the city governed by the Lost and Found Department, cabinet city, city of the bends, the opium city, Swing City, Archetype City, city of dust, city that eludes the seven ages, muskrat city, the island city of daughters and wives, Sin City, city of sincerity, the cavernous city, the city of conventions, hatmaker city, Alphabet City, city of the last and first, the city called Marrakesh (I know it is not Marrkesh), industrial city, the city of airplane booze, center city, the city without shoulders, the city that forgot, the trampoline city, Abacus City, the city of tears, the real city (or the city of the desert), the unreal city (or the city of good will), the city of rust, of showers, of late blooming aster, Hygiene City, the city of logistics— once more in the city called Halloween (I know it is not Halloween), I gathered the five true ingredients of gunpowder and arranged to meet my younger brother Stetson next noon at the Heartland Cafe.

—John Beer, from "The Waste Land"

[joncronshawauthor]

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 242

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 242

Short story: Green Boughs Will Cover Thee by Sarah L. Byrne, from Nature Magazine, March 2017. Highly Recommended.

Poem: Total Information Overload by John Beer, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from April 2017. Highly Recommended.

Essay: Dementia Rights by Tom Shakespeare, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from April 2017. Highly Recommended.

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