David Cravens' epic poem "American Zen" counts as one of the more ambitious works ever published in The Dewdrop.
Tag: Beat Poetry
Allen Ginsberg – A Supermarket in California
Allen Ginsberg's homage to Walt Whitman is a colorful, visionary encounter in a supermarket in Berkeley one night.
A Buddha in the Woodpile
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a poet and an activist and one of the central figures of the Beat movement in the 1950s. From his City Lights Bookstore and publishing house, he published writers like Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac who were breaking with the norms and traditions of not just poetry and literature, but… Continue reading A Buddha in the Woodpile