> others significantly active in, influential upon, and informed by the
> period, some of them rather natty dressers, who would be hard to categorize
> or dismiss so easily: O'Hara, Ashberry, Spicer, Blaser, Owen, Blackburn,
> Olson, Duncan, Creeley, Adam, Wieners. There are a slew of others, but
> these will do for a start. I suggest that you start reading.
>
Knock 'em dead! Ohhh those suits.! Burroughs always wore
great threads. Shoot since when is a poem measured by the cut of speaker's
cloth - no double entendre intended. Then there is of course, Leonard
Cohen, who was always an impeccable dresser. Anyhow, only a person who has
not read the vast amounts of poetry from the glorius 60's be so petulant
about the period.
let us go then you and I
and watch the watchers watching
weaving unweaving their devil-made threads
As the rag-a-muffin poets dance
along-side the fancy suits. Oh cahoots!
Oh mes poetes!
Now listen here,kid, you ain't get inta Parnassus,
you didn't bring your suit.
But oh oh that Suitespeherian rags its so elegant.
My dear Oscar, where did you get that appaaaaaling set of rags!?
Shit, man, My name is Gregory Corso and I always dress like a bum.
Lest we forget, Homer wore nothing when he died.
Jean Genet, had been a dandy in the 50's,
then flipped to cords and leather jackets in the
70's and 80's.
A poet wears words, nothing more, nothing less.
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