What did you say?
Kenneth Rexroth

How many stopped writing at thirty?
How many died of prefrontal
Lobotomies in the Communist Party?
How many are lost in the back wards
Of provincial madhouses?
How many on the advice of
Their psychoanalysts, decided
A business career was best after all?

- Kenneth Rexroth

Alick West

Posted on Sep 15, 2016 in
Alick West

“The goal then, for many, was equally cultural and political—to open the floodgates of the best that had been made and thought of by man.” (1969)