sorted books by Lank
August 16th, 2007 1:03 AM / Location: 37.797602,-122.4063And so, in that spirit, I completed this task in San Francisco style. And also, as per my usual M.O., I did a lot.
It was anna one who turned me on to City Lights bookstore. I checked it out a few weeks ago on the same day I visited the Two Towers, Coit and Sutro. It was nice to see said establishment get more love here.
I went up to the Poetry Room at City Lights, spent a couple of hours going through all the books and writing down the titles that struck me, and proceeded to make poems out of the titles of these books of poetry. I had to make two trips because there was so much poetry to be made. I was there so long that on the second day, a patron asked me where to find Bukowski. I was honored to misdirect him.
Hope you like what I was able to come up with. The Beats get their due. I may go back for more.
What's Your Idea of a Good Time?
Life Is a Fatal Disease / Against Which / Multitudes / Howl (Inside joke: The blue book on the bottom is titled "What's Your Idea of a Good Time?")
While We've Still Got Feet
Meanwhile Take My Hand / Dear Friend / Steal Away / While We've Still Got Feet / Shaking Off the Dark / Drunk with Light / Let's Eat Stars / In the Next Galaxy
Fear of Drowning
Longing / For / The Night / Unsleeping / Fear of Dreaming / Some Are Drowning / In the Dark / The Violent Foam / As They Sail / The Beautiful / Sea of Dreams
A Little Bouquet
A Little Bouquet / A Hundred White Daffodils / 500,000 Azaleas / Thirty-Six / Black Iris / A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know / Without End
Soft
The War Works Hard / Break, Blow, Burn / Work Without Hope // Love Is Hard Work / Soft Engineering / Of / The Soft Machine
San Francisco's Burning
Black Lightning / Atop an Underwood / Dancing Embers / Trees Became Torches / The Fire / Jumping over Fire / Travels / On Foot, In Flames / Toward the Splendid City / San Francisco's Burning / Morning in the Burned House / Ashes for Breakfast
The Cocktail Party
The Cocktail Party / Cutty, One Rock / Honey with Tobacco / Honey and Junk / Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey / Whiskey & Robots / I Love Artists
18 vote(s)
Loki
5
Sean Tabs
5
YellowBear
5
Jackie H
5
Meta tron
5
Ben Yamiin
5
Ziggy C.
5
The Villain
5
The Vixen
5
travelbug
5
Zhee Meatss Needz Cheffing
5
Bex.
5
Charlie Fish
5
Orion
5
Lincøln
5
Jellybean of Thark
5
lara black
5
Danny
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nice use of ginsberg at city lights in your first pic! very site-specific of you.
Burroughs and Kerouac are also represented. Respect.
Awesome, awesome, awesome. I actually took a couple pictures of the poetry room (showcased in my A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words task). And funny that you submit this today because I am currently chopping up a Ginsberg poem as I type.... Muahahah.
supervote would be awarded on the basis of writing good poetry, not using your own reading collection and the superlative choice of city lights bookstore. the angels are smiling and blowing their trumpets.
bravo! and now the pain of putting your handsome books back in order. should you do it by author? or color this time? :)