The Old Pothead Poems

The Old Pothead Poems
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Publisher : Donald S. Ellis
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ISBN-10 : 0887394809
ISBN-13 : 9780887394805
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Book Synopsis The Old Pothead Poems by : Sam Abrams

Download or read book The Old Pothead Poems written by Sam Abrams and published by Donald S. Ellis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Armstrong said it, Marijuana is an assistant, a friend. These poems riff off that theme, a fifty-year-long set of improv-collaborations between two old friends, Miss Mary Jane and her man, Sam.Poems too of a classicist, on familiar terms with Sappho, Archilochus, Horace, Socrates -- regulars in the audience along with Miles, Billy, Bessie, Woody -- hard listeners for poems that are bluesy, bopsy, beat, Whitmanesque, funny, generous, passionately committed, intellectually rigorous, sometimes savage -- poems that swing hard, come on hard, poems from Brooklyn, America, Greece, London -- in-your-face poems. And always poems composed not in the head but on the breath. Poems that can only -- the author insists -- be read aloud.The goal is to perfect the world, to sing the golden age into America, an absurd goal, but only by constantly risking absurdity can we become human.


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