Another of this author's poems declares "Yes the world is the best place of all" before warning "but right in the middle of it comes the smiling mortician."
One of this author's poems describes "a real live democratic dog" with "something to say about ontology" which looks "like a living questionmark / into the great gramophone of puzzling existence." Another of this author's poems declares "Yes the world is the best place of all" before warning "but right in the middle of it comes the smiling mortician." This author wrote a poem named for a place where the speaker "first fell in love with unreality," which ends with the lines "Outside the leaves were falling and they cried Too soon! too soon!" This author compared a poet to an acrobat climbing "on rime / to a high wire of his own making" in "Constantly Risking Absurdity." Another poem by this author of "the pennycandy store behind the El" claims that the moment when people attained the title of "suffering humanity" is captured in "Goya's greatest scenes." For 10 points, name this Beat poet who founded the City Lights Bookstore and wrote A Coney Island of the Mind.
One of this author's poems describes "a real live democratic dog" with "something to say about ontology" which looks "like a living questionmark / into the great gramophone of puzzling existence."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti