In later years: amid the bones of bohemia Once I began publishing poetry and some criticism in the 90s, I had hopes of finding the sort of bohemian literary community I had known a decade earlier when I had worked and rather starved in the Dinkytown neighborhood of Minneapolis for a number of years in [...]
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. 5. Bohemia on the Mississippi
Posted in Alfred Lord Tennyson, Algernon Swinburne, Allen Ginsberg, Basho, Bob Dylan, bohemia, cats, Christie Wirth, Christine Mack Gordon, coastal Washington, Dante, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Deborah Digges, dharma bums, Dinkytown, Gary Snyder, graveyards, Jack Kerouac, Jerry Rau, John Keats, John Macoubrie, Jonathan Sisson, Ken Kesey, love lost, Marjorie Buettner, meter, Mississippi River, New Formalism, peyote, poverty, Pre-Raphaelites, rhyme, Robin Zander, Robinson Jeffers, Rock River, Rusoff's Books, the Beats, the Loft, used bookstores, Victoria Dickinson, Virginia DeCourcey, W.B. Yeats, William Shakespeare, tagged bohemia, Gary Snyder, graveyards, New Formalists, Victoria Dickinson on May 26, 2008 | 7 Comments »
. 8. Along the stripling Thames: in search of the Scholar Gipsy
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As mentioned in the section “literary nationalism” (‘the river ran red: literary wars’), the so-called ‘poetry wars’ of the early ’90s left me in a state of considerable expasperation for many reasons, one of which was the charge that to write in rhyme and meter was to place oneself in a relationship of indentured servitude [...]
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