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 »
. 7c. Ruins on the Somme: a lost war poet rediscovered
Posted in Dana Gioia, Ernest Hemingway, John Allan Wyeth, lost American classic, Matthew Bruccoli, Modernism, New Formalism, River Somme, sonnet, used bookstores, war poetry, World War I, tagged Dana Gioia, John Allan Wyeth, lost American classic, New Formalists, River Somme, sonnet, war poetry, World War I on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Of the many thousands of times that I have drawn a dusty nondescript book from a poorly-lit shelf in a used-bookstore during the past forty years, only once can I claim to have pulled down and opened an entirely unknown classic of American literature. Not that I recognized it as such at the time. Nor even now, on the eve of its re-publication by [...]









