A Supermarket in California (1955)
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A Supermarket in California (1955)
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Re: A Supermarket in California (1955)
#2Wonderful. And another Ginsberg Berkeley poem, maybe my favorite:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49304/sunflower-sutra
Re: A Supermarket in California (1955)
#3Go Bears
Re: A Supermarket in California (1955)
#4Wonderful. And another Ginsberg Berkeley poem, maybe my favorite: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49304/sunflower-sutra
Nice. I was vibing to this poem you shared earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42639593
(I'm not familiar with Carl Sandburg and appreciate the introduction.)
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#6Apparently Mr Ginsberg was a friend to young men. And not in a good way:
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/allen-ginsberg-pedophilia...
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#7Howl was the poem that spurred inspired a generation:
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#8Sorry for the unrelated comment.
It seems that I saw "AI" when I glance "A" in the title, I'm like a LLM trained by news in recently years...
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#9The supermarket this takes place at is now the Trader Joe's in Berkeley on University.
Also a radiolab episode opener takes place at Berkeley Bowl West (the ep on the paradox of choice, they try to decide what apples to get).
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Re: A Supermarket in California (1955)
#10Apparently Mr Ginsberg was a friend to young men. And not in a good way: https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/allen-ginsberg-pedophilia...
The Southern Poverty Law Center has characterized it as catering to "intellectual wing of white nationalist movement" wrt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicles_(magazine)
Everything in that article might be true, but I'd use a different source.