I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetration for all.
Most likely his only visit and I don’t think he will ever come back as this is not a Gary Snyder kind of place.
But for those of you who don’t know, Gary Snyder was one of the founding members with Kerouac, Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Greg Corso of the Beat generation in the 50s. He was one of the readers at maybe the most famous poetry reading of our generation at the Six Gallery in San Francisco where Allan Ginsburg first read Howl (“I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…”). Snyder was also one of the first Westerners fascinated by Zen and began a life long study of Zen and mysticism.
Turtle Island, his best book of poems, won the Pulitzer Prize. And Jack Kerouac immortalized Gary Snyder in the Dharma Bums, just as he used Neal Casady as the blueprint for Dean Moriarity in On The Road (giving rise to one of the great literary putdowns by Norman Mailer –“that’s not writing, that’s typing”)
The Beats are long forgotten these days but in the early sixties were firmly a part of popular culture (does anybody remember Maynard G. Krebs?). Frankly, I had no idea he was still alive till I saw this post.
Thanks Callnumber9 for bringing this guy back to life
and Gary visits there every so often along with the other beat poets as well as Emily Dickerson, Walt Whitman and all the rest.
Currently Billy Collins, a former Poet Laureate of the United States is spelling for Garrison while he takes the summer off doing other things.
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but I am pretty sure that his buddy Dobie Gillis responded to a couple of my posts on GD over the last couple of days.
shipwreck... and kept Ginger and Maryanne cooped up on that Island with the Doctor who never showed an interest in well, you know.
Krebs later was arrested for possession of illegal substances which he brought back from the tropics (now I wonder what that could have been?) but I'll always wonder where on earth these follks went... perhaps they are all stuck in the "Twilight Zone" near the "Outer Limits"
...but I was a very big fan of Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kerouac. On the Road, Naked Lunch, Kaddish, Howl. All great stuff.
In the early 90's I think someone made a movie out of Naked Lunch that turned out to be pretty damn good. Worth checking out.
For those who aren't in the know, Bob Dylan considered himself more of a Beatnik than a hippie. The Beats mostly produced writers, but they did produce a few musical acts. One of those lesser known acts were The Fugs, who actually did a song where they sang Ginsberg's Howl in full.
Their tunes "CIA Man" and "Kill For Peace" is pretty awesome. But my favorite tune they did is....
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pledge allegiance to mrnogood
of TER P&R board,
and to the revelations which he posts
one man
under no one
With super powers of the mind and good News for All.
And for you mrnogood fans there's a chance of him posting something enlighten sometime soon
other people are inherently bad, and NEED to be governed!
Because the people believe this they submit to authority of the state..
In an anarchist society the foundation is people ARE inherently good, and don't need to be governed..
Which one do you think would be better for the people? A system that assumes they're bad, or one that assumes they're good?
Anarchy is the mother of ALL order robert! The state FORCES order. We do NOT need the state to have order.. It doesn't occur naturally. The state ONLY exists in the hearts and minds of the people who submit to it and GIVE it authority..
The only reason I can think of to be scared of Anarchy is because the state perpetuates this fear.. Anarchy is a threat to its existence..
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/classes/Anarchy/finalprojects/flores/anarchy.htm