Bebop
Andrew O’Hagan, 5 October 1995
Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-56
edited by Ann Charters.
Viking, 629 pp., £25, August 1995,0 670 84952 9 Show More
edited by Ann Charters.
Viking, 629 pp., £25, August 1995,
“... the Little Capacon River. My friend was saying that a lot of the American poets right now, like Robert Hass, the Poet Laureate, are not actually writing poetry at all: ‘they’re involved in a warding off of the poetic moment,’ he said, ‘they see that they have something in their hand, then they talk it away.’ The road was winding and narrow, and we ... ”