Sunday, July 23, 2006

The albino was supposed to be deep

Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the midnight cowboys who scrawl on coasters and serviettes:

My poetics are totally different to something like the Ginsberg school, which is based on the idea of 'first thought, best thought' ... It is a solid concept to get the most direct transcription of your consciousness, especially if the person doing it has an original mind. Allen Ginsberg had a fascinating and genius mind and so the poetry is fascinating and genius. But when this method is laid on to thousands of students, many of whom don't have original minds, you get acres of boring poetry.


Oh god, don't anyone think that my effort a few days ago lurks in this acreage! The albino was supposed to be deep. (In a surreal sort of way, I'll admit. In fact, so unfathomably embedded in my subconscious was the pale-skinned observer that even I at the time of writing couldn't completely understand it. Still can't, actually! As I said: DEEP.) Anyway, maybe this picture'll distract the lawyers ...


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