Frozen
in the birdbath,
A leaf.
-Jack Kerouac (formatting is slightly off since I can’t indent the second line on mobile)

This is, to my mind, a wonderful #Haiku: terse, evocative, short. At eight syllables it’s “to short” but you can’t really add anything w/o ruining it.

#Poetry #Poem #TheBeats #BeatPoetry #PoetryCommunity

Frozen
in the birdbath,
A leaf.
-Jack Kerouac (formatting is slightly off since I can’t indent the second line on mobile)

This is, to my mind, a wonderful #Haiku: terse, evocative, short. At eight syllables it’s “to short” but you can’t really add anything w/o ruining it.

#Poetry #Poem #TheBeats #BeatPoetry #PoetryCommunity

The ugly spirit of Naked Lunch -

#WilliamSBurroughs #NakedLunch #TheBeats #InterZone

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jun/20/william-s-burroughs-naked-lunch

In this rather remarkable study of Allen Ginsberg there are riches to be gleaned for any serious, aspiring poet. A sort of clinical as well as scholarly biography. The book was written by a psychiatrist who actually knew, as well as interviewed, Allen Ginsberg. Please read the rest of my review here:

https://rogueliterarysociety.com/f/best-minds-how-allen-ginsberg-made-by-steven-m-weine

#allenginsberg #poetry #writing #literary #thebeats