Tag: whitman

• Shakepeare & Company–The Center of The World

  Vanity Fair Magazine has a great article on what might be the greatest book store in the world.  I can’t say for sure–I’ve been to City Lights in San Francisco, Powell’s in Portland, and Rizzoli in New York City, but I’ve never been to Paris.  I’m a book fetishist at heart–as fond of old volumes…

  JunkChuck

  October 21, 2014

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  beats, books, bookstore, Eliot, fitzgerald, ginsberg, hemingway, Joyce, Paris, Pound, Shakespeare & Company, whitman, writers

• National Poetry Month: Whitman Weekend & Boys’ Night Out

  I get a kick out of thinking of wild-minded Walt Whitman and the decidedly staid Emily Dickinson as something between Adam and Eve and a prism.  There was American poetry before, and American poetry after the pair–but almost everything before led to them and everything after sprung from them, through them, and what didn’t was…

  JunkChuck

  April 18, 2014

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  beer, boys, brotherhood, dickinson, grand teton, grizzly, leaves of grass, moran, pacific creek, poetry, whitman, wyoming