Only reading "Howl" before this, I never expected to see so many flowers in Ginsberg's poetry, did you?
Does the white space Ferlinghetti works with bother anyone else but me?
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- Katie Nealon
- Recent graduate of the University of California: Santa Cruz, with a degree in Literature/Creative Writing. Currently residing in Santa Cruz as a book artist a poet. Poetic endeavors and paper projects to come!
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TF ... that use of white space that bothers you may be due to the fact that LF is a prolific and talented painter as well as poet ...
Just thinking out loud.
D @ Issa's Untidy Hut
I never knew he was a painter. The white space seems to flow more for me now. But for a reader who is looking for some "thing" in the white space, it is difficult to read some of his poems, at least in his San Francisco poems. It is too much of my Williams/Olsen bias, but white space says something to me, as well as providing visual stimulus.
But, definitely, now knowing he was a painter, I understand his need for a word to be in one place, rather than another.
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