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Daily Archives: April 28, 2004
Another Thought on Ginsberg
From Barry Miles’ biography of Ginsberg (link under current.reading), page 488: Eorsi [Hungarian poet Istvan Eorsi] pointed out that, unlike Mayakovsky [Vladimir Mayakovsky, Georgian poet, see * below], who had to live with the revolution that he prophesied and helped … Continue reading →
New Orleans: Imagine It Educated
Their America is seventy-percent against them, but they do not know, these kids in New Orleans their ebony faces eager or sullen or lost in some other world lugging heavy booksacks on their narrow shoulders facing teachers tired of trying … Continue reading →
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Tagged America, education, failure, ignorance, metaphor, New Orleans
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