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Also taking the French route with a favorite poem I recited for memory at a high school language competition back in the 80s. I won 1st place. 😃
pickThis collection, half stories and half poems, was beautiful, heartbreaking, and brilliant.
Cuadros started writing after being diagnosed with HIV in 1987. His writing has a raw edge. There is a touch of mysticism and a poetic quality in the stories, while his prose poems have more of a storyline at times. Cuadros blurs the lines, exploring gender roles in Mexican-American culture and the progression of HIV in his partner and then himself. ⬇️
pickIt‘s been a long time since I read contemporary poetry. I thoroughly enjoyed this collection put together by Ferlinghetti in 2001. Lots of Ginsberg, Kerouac, and lots of translations. A whole bunch of names I didn‘t know.
I picked my copy up at Ferlinghetti‘s store, City Lights, in San Francisco. And I read it in a bunch of 15 minute sittings. (It made a nice filler as i waited for my morning coffee to cool.)
A couple weeks ago I visited the landmark that is City Lights Bookstore on Columbus Avenue in San Francisco. Well, it‘s been a long time since I‘ve read poetry (well, from more recently than Shakespeare). But I‘ve picked this up a few times now and I‘ve enjoyed it. I think I‘m actually reading it.
#poetrymonth Kudos to #CityLights for being a great bookstore & publisher! Their pocket poets series was affordable & would fit in your pocket!
🤗 enjoy @wanderinglynn
Today is French poet Jacques Prévert's birthday. He would have been 122. I wondered which of his poems were available online in English, and found some on poetryverse.com. I learnt his poems at school - they are deceptively simple!
The poem above - Les feuilles mortes - is actually a song.
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