Gerald Nicosia – Ferlinghetti
for Neeli Cherkovski
Lawrence never let me treat him like a famous man
I sat down to interview him
a green 27-year-old Midwestern kid
He said, “You need...
Gerald Nicosia
Born outside Chicago, Gerald Nicosia moved to San Francisco in 1979. He is author of Memory Babe, a biography of Jack Kerouac first published...
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Gertrude Stein – Johnny Grey
What did he say. I was disagreeing with him.
He said he didn't have it by his side.
He said.
Hurry.
Eat it.
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Antonia Buizza – Immortality
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Kate Chopin – Désirée’s Baby
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T. S. Eliot – Eeldrop and Appleplex
I
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James Baldwin – The Blind Men and the Elephant
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Everything I’ve written
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in spacetime.
Not a word is invented,
not a sound.
If one day a Schliemann
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Troy the unconquerable
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