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Redefining My Peer Group
When you think about it, what does a jury of one’s peers really mean? Legally, I suppose it means that because all individuals are theoretically equal under the law, one’s peers in a litigious sense means other equally theoretical equals. … Continue reading
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Disenfranchised
I subscribe to several poetry journals. I do not find kindred spirits there, only other wandering souls who seek no connection with the poetry I find pulsing under the surface of the world that has a natural rhythm, that breathes … Continue reading
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Tagged belonging, disenfranchisement, isolation, membership, organizations, peers
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Have the best minds of my generation been destroyed by madness?
From Ann Charters’ introduction to The Portable Beat Reader: Earlier in the history of American literature, the novelist Henry James acknowledged in his biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne that “the best things come, as a general thing, from the talents that … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Charters, artists, Generation X, peers, the 60s, The Portable Beat Reader
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