<p>Choosing to include the perspective of the deer, the perspecive of the child, the perspective of the tribal harpooner thinking himself into the whale's body, choosing to believe that art stems from the pelvis rather than from a dissociated intellect--these choices determine the governing language of Ann's poems, a language grounded in simplicity and directness, in images of physical reality, a language in which the abstract can be ahieved only as a flowering of the immediate and particular.</p>

The Collected Poems of Ann Fields

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Fields, Ann

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Poetry. Written in 1961, Whalen said of GOOFBOOK: "A book for Jack, saying whatever I want to say, whatever I feel like saying". A lost masterpiece--letter, poem, book--by the great beat Zen poet Philip Whalen documenting the intimate friendship between Whalen and Jack Kerouac. From the Editor's Note: "Michael: I am getting ready to publish GOOFBOOK. Is there anything you want me to add or say?" "Philip: This is a private letter that fell into the wrong hands. It should never be published. But if you have to do it then that's that." "Michael: I hate to think of myself as the wrong hands." "Philip: I was speaking metaphysically." Cover photo: Philip Whalen and Jack Kerouac (back cover) by Walter Lehrman. Edited by Michael Rothenberg.

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