ALLEN COHEN Poetry
Save Haight Ashbury 
Chronicles of Hell
Thomas Wolfe was 
McClure, the playwright, songwriter, and novelist who penned Janis Joplin's immortal "Mercedes Benz. Michael McClure one of the five poets read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 , and is rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums and is immortalized as "Pat McLear" in Kerouac's Big Sur.
was born in San Francisco. A high school drop, he went to pursue poetry in New York City. He returned to the Bay Area in 1945 and his first book, Erotic Poems, was published a year later. Philip
was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death. His poems were not well received during his lifetime, However his reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the 19th century, he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets.On Fame
Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy
To those who woo her with too slavish knees,
But makes surrender to some thoughtless boy,
And dotes the more upon a heart at ease;
She is a Gipsey,—will not speak to those
Who have not learnt to be content without her;
A Jilt, whose ear was never whisper’d close,
Who thinks they scandal her who talk about her;
A very Gipsey is she, Nilus-born,
Sister-in-law to jealous Potiphar;
Ye love-sick Bards! repay her scorn for scorn;
Ye Artists lovelorn! madmen that ye are!
Make your best bow to her and bid adieu,
Then, if she likes it, she will follow you.
by John Keats
October 31, 1795~February 23, 1821
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