Who I was becoming was the least of my concerns. We were at war.
Hannah Zeavin
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Where “critical race theory” was recently the cudgel set to smash any left-liberal gains, now it is Palestine.
Parallel Processes
December 12, 2022
“There is a life here”
On Bernadette Mayer (1945–2022)
I had arrived at the all too probably named Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute past its ostensible heyday. Founded in 1974 by Waldman and her “spiritual husband” Allen Ginsberg, the school had the reputation of a mountain retreat for the Beat Poets, and their friends in the New York School, and their friends in the Black Mountain school, and their friends in the New Narrative school.
What is this a description of but free association and fantasy gone wrong?
