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Bruce Isaacson's avatar

Norse's "Memoirs of a Bastard Angel" is the best of the genre. He lived a truly incredible life, and his involvement with Modernists like Auden and Williams is equally interesting. Thanks for including this poem which I didn't know.

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RGomez's avatar

Full Moon: A Memoir

The Universe led me to Ginsberg’s “Howl” when I was just a boy.

I read an excerpt of it in my 7th grade English class, and my friends loved it.

Little did I know how Ginsberg changed the course of my life at that moment.

But I felt it.

Oh, yeah … hair bristling on the back of my neck, invisible wings growing on my shoulders — as the maddest of my pals howled like baby wolves, enjoying our first full moon.

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