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a modest proposal

if you’ve never read the outlaw bible of american poetry, then i would posit that you don’t know jack about american poetry

that probably sounds horribly elitist, and god forbid we should deal in absolutes, but if you think that the majority of american poets are sitting around in gentile coffee houses — you’ve got another thing coming. in the tradition of wild men like Allen Ginsberg, or eccentrics like William Carlos Williams, the poets in this anthology are the real deal. one of the most severely underappreciated of them is the now-deceased David Lerner (leader of the Cafe Barbar in San Francisco). this excerpt from his poem “Mein Kampf” still gives me chills. READ it if you want your mind blown.

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