/lit/ - Literature

Guise halp.

My favorite video/recording of Allen Ginsberg singing "A western ballad" (when I died, love, when I died) got taken off the youtubes and I'm not proficient enough in the internet to find it again.

lit pls.

>>3562627

>doesn't go through an existentialist crisis every day

>>3434423

You hear that guys... He gets ahead of himself.

>>3423346

I've read into most of them... Ginsberg, Berryman, and O'Hara are my favorites. But I feel like there's so much more to be gained that I can't get from just reading. Though my work has come a LONG way since I've been indulging myself in good poetry.

>>3404861

>implying reading poetry he won't understand in the slightest is going to get him into poetry.

>>3352216

Made some great fucking poems, though.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1hKskGYvoVG

Vocaroo poetry anyone?

Also hows my Frank O'Hara reading/impression? I enjoy reading poems out loud so much more than in my head.

OC poetry thread?

Hard mode: Write a poem on the spot

Do the cons of turning ones self into a character for the benefit of their writhing (i.e. Hemingway, H.S. Thompson, Bukowski, Kerouac, Berryman, and other people whose personalities were heavily divulged and represented in their writing). Do you think the pros of more interesting and potentially successful writing ought-weigh the possible negative outcomes (drug addiction, Alcoholism, depression, insanity, an unpleasant demise)?

Do the cons of turning ones self into a character for the benefit their writhing ( i.e. Hemingway, H.S. Thompson, Bukowski, Kerouac, Berryman, and other people whose personalities were heavily divulged and represented in their writing). Do you think the pros of more interesting and potentially successful writing ought-weigh the possible negative outcomes (drug addiction, Alcoholism, depression, insanity, an unpleasant demise)?

>>3299999

>>3294441

John Berryman
Allen Ginsberg
Frank O'Hara

>>3276823

I like to think he and O'Hara are sipping coffee in a cafe in the clouds.

OC poetry/critique thread


Delusion #2

Seems just trivial and dangerous now
Not worth it’s weight
Tried distracting – amusing myself
Flipped through the Qur’an
Sat and chanted an OM
Bored by Nietzsche

I think Camus had a point
Perhaps psychopathy is best
Just you and I, old chum – snickered
It births the most interesting people after all
Better crazy than boring
And never met one that seemed so

Tried all
Then tried nothing
The bent stick – as they say
Great for seeing the world
And all reaches of the mind
Never returns quite back to where it was, though

I think I broke myself
Shouldn’t have played with my food
Shouldn’t have read so much poetry
Made it look all right to be mad
To be content with living with a delusion so long
That it becomes reality