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	<title>Harold Norse</title>
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		<title>We Salute Peter Orlovsky- Poet, Farmer and Queer Revolutionary</title>
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Harold Norse and Peter Orlovsky at Naropa Institute, July 1980. Photograph by Michael Kellner.
In the summer of 1980, Harold joined Burroughs, Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky for a joint reading at Naropa Institute where Peter had taught poetry the previous decade.
Peter Orlovsky, poet, Ginsberg&#8217;s partner, dies
Julian Guthrie, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, June 3, 2010


Peter Orlovsky was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harold Norse Memorial Celebration</title>
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Join us in celebration of beloved poet Harold Norse
as we remember his life and work.
Norse’s friends and admirers will pay homage to this master poet.
Led by Norse’s longtime friends and fellow poets
NEELI CHERKOVSKI    MEL CLAY    A.D. WINANS

July 12, 2009 2:00pm
The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway (at Columbus)
North Beach, San Francisco

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		<title>To Mohammed on Our Journeys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was the tourist
el   simpático
and your brother offered you
and almost himself
I forgot about your brother
and we took a flat in the Marshan
with reed mats and one water tap
about a foot from the floor
an we smoked hasheesh
and ate well and loved well
and left for the south
Essaouira, Fez, Marrakech
and got to Taroudant
thru the mountains
and bought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnivorous Saint Cover Photo Shoot 1970</title>
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Taken in August 1970 during the photo shoot which led to the cover image for Carnivorous Saint. The photographer was poet and filmmaker Ira Cohen using mylar screens to create images of liquid opium.
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		<title>Guardian UK Obituary</title>
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Striking Beat writer and artist later feted as one of America&#8217;s leading gay poets
By Douglas Field
The Guardian, Wednesday, June 17, 2009
William Carlos Williams once wrote to Harold Norse, who has died aged 92, that &#8220;you are the best poet of your generation&#8221;. Often associated with the Beat writers, Norse began publishing in the early 1940s, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The last photo taken of Harold Norse</title>
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Todd Swindell, friend, with Harold Norse three days before his death. This is the last photo taken of Harold alive. The spinning object is a Tibetan prayer wheel containing the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum, the mantra of compassion. Photo by Tate Swindell.
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		<title>New York Times Obituary</title>
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Harold Norse, a Beat Poet, Dies at 92
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: June 13, 2009
Harold Norse, a poet who broke new ground beginning in the 1950s by exploring gay identity and sexuality in a distinctly American idiom relying on plain language and direct imagery, died on Monday in San Francisco. He was 92.
The death was confirmed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco Chronicle Obituary</title>
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Beat poet Harold Norse dies at 92
Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, June 14, 2009
When he wasn&#8217;t regaling friends with wild tales of past cavortings, Harold Norse would sometimes complain about his lack of fame compared with other Beat poets.
Neither his work nor his name was as well known as Beat contemporaries Allen Ginsberg or Jack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harold Norse in 1987</title>
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Harold with Kevin Killian &#38; James Broughton in San Francisco in 1987. Photo by Alex Gildzen.
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		<title>Harold Norse in 2003</title>
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Harold Norse and two of his books, December 25, 2003. Photo by Betty Best.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his early 20&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse during his ballet dancer days in New York City, circa 1937. Photo by Marcus Bleckman, great-nephew of Sarah Bernhardt.
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		<title>Harold Norse in  his 50&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse in Venice, CA circa 1969. This was the photo that made Charles Bukowski jealous.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 60&#8217;s</title>
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At the Cafe Trieste, North Beach, San Francisco, 1975. Left to right: Allen Ginsberg, Harold Norse, Jack Hirschman, Michael McClure &#38; Bob Kaufman. Photo by Diana Church.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 60&#8217;s</title>
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At the Cafe Trieste, North Beach, San Francisco, 1975. Left to right: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Minelte Le Blanc, Peter Le Blanc, Allen Ginsberg, Harold Norse, Jack Hirschman &#38; Bob Kaufman. Photo by Diana Church.
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		<title>Harold Norse and Gerard Malanga 1973</title>
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Gerard Malanga and Harold Horse, Union Square, San Francisco, 1973. Photo by Frances McCann.
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		<title>Harold Norse in Morocco 1962 by Paul Bowles</title>
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Harold Norse in Arcil, Morocco 1962. Photo by Paul Bowles.
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		<title>Harold Norse and Neeli Cherkovski</title>
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Harold Norse and Neeli Cherkovski, date unknown
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		<title>At the Cafe Trieste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The music of ancient Greece
and Rome did not come down to us
but this morning
I read Virgil&#8217;s Eclogues
struck by the prophecy
of a new era:
&#8220;A great cycle of centuries
begins. Justice returns to earth,
the Golden Age returns,&#8221; he wrote
30 years before the end
of his millennium, describing
the birth of the infant god, come down
from heaven. Jesus was 19
when Virgil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 60&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse at the Cafe Trieste circa late 1970&#8217;s.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 60&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse in front of City Lights Bookstore window promoting the release of his cut-up novella Beat Hotel, May 15, 1983
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		<title>Harold in his 80&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse in the bedroom of his Albion Street cottage, November 11, 1999. Photo by Todd Swindell.
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		<title>Harold Norse and Peter Orlovsky 1980</title>
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Harold Norse and Peter Orlovsky, Naropa Insitute, July 1980. Photo by Michael Kellner.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 50&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse in Union Square, San Francisco, 1973. Photo by Frances McCann.
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		<title>Los Angeles Times Obituary</title>
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Harold Norse dies at 92; Beat poet was a literary beacon in gay community
A pioneer of poetry written in plain American English, Norse was a mentor or peer to great talents in 20th century American literature, including Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin and Allen Ginsberg.
By Elaine Woo
June 13, 2009
Harold Norse, a San Francisco poet often associated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 60&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse in San Francisco, 1981. Photo by Ira Cohen.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 60&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse in San Francisco, 1981. Photo by Ira Cohen.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 50&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse circa 1970&#8217;s. Photo by Frances McCann.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 50&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse circa 1970&#8217;s. Photo by Frances McCann.
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		<title>Harold Norse in the 1960&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse circa 1960&#8217;s
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 50&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse near the Bay Bridge, November 1972. Photo by Neil Hollier.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 50&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse at his apartment on Guy Place, 1974. Photo by William Childress.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 60&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse in 1984. Photo by Robert Pruzan.
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		<title>Harold Norse &amp; William S. Burroughs 1980</title>
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Harold Norse and William S. Burroughs at Naropa Institue, July 1980. Photo by Michael Kellner.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 20&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse executing a tour jete enl&#8217;air. He had begun to be a ballet dancer in New York after leaving home in Brooklyn and finishing college, circa 1938.
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		<title>Let Go and Feel Your Nakedness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let go and feel your nakedness, tits ache to be bitten and sucked
Let go with pong of armpit and crotch, let go with hole a-tingle
Let go with tongue lapping hairy cunt, lick feet, kiss ass, suck cock and
balls
Let the whole body go, let love come through, let freedom ring
Let go with moans and erogenous zones, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harold Norse in the 1960&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse circa 1960&#8217;s
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 50&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse circa early 1970&#8217;s. Photo by Frances McCann.
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		<title>Harold Norse  in his 50&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse,  circa early 1970&#8217;s. Photo by Frances McCann.
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		<title>Harold Norse  in his 50&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 Harold Norse circa early 1970&#8217;s
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		<title>Harold Norse  in his 50&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse in Venice, CA, July 1969
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 50&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse in San Francisco, Novemeber 1972. Photo by Neil Hollier.
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		<title>Harold Norse in the early 1960&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse in Paris in the early 1960&#8217;s. Photo by Martha Rocher.
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		<title>Harold Norse &amp; Gerard Malanga 1995</title>
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Photo by Ira Cohen, &#8220;For Harold, It was great to see you. Here&#8217;s one photo of you w/ the great SHMOOZER. Mr. Gerard Malanga, who surprised you by not knowing that a BJ was &#8220;ALL THE WAY.&#8221; Best, Ira 1995&#8243;
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		<title>Harold Norse &amp; William S. Burroughs 1980</title>
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William S. Burroughs &#38; Harold Norse reading at Naropa Institute, July 1980. Photo by Michael Kellner.
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		<title>Harold Norse in Crete 1963</title>
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Harold Norse in Crete, 1963. Photo by Thanassis.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 40&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse circa 1950&#8217;s
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		<title>Harold Norse Obituary by Todd Swindell and Jim Nawrocki</title>
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Harold Norse, whose poetry earned both wide critical acclaim and a large, enduring popular following, died on Monday, June 8, 2009, in San Francisco, just one month before his 93rd birthday. Norse, who lived in San Francisco for the last thirty five years, had a prolific, international literary career that spanned 70 years. His collected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beat Hotel photo</title>
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Harold Norse at The Beat Hotel
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		<title>Beat Hotel photo</title>
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Madame Rachou with Harold Norse. He asked me to take these pictures in January 1963, when,after 32 years, Mme Rachou &#8220;the bluehaired old mother of us all&#8221;, retired and moved to a flat nearby. The hotel had been sold, the handle of the cafe door had been removed, and a notice in the window read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Reading flyer</title>
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Gay Sunshine, a benefit reading. Harold Norse, Allen Ginsberg, John Rechy, William Barber, Aaron Shurin, Dennis Cooper, Neeli Cherkovski, Robert Gluck. 7:30 Friday May 27, 1977, Glide Memorial Church
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 90&#8217;s</title>
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Todd Swindell, friend, with Harold three days before his death. The spinning object is a Tibetan prayer wheel contain the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum, the mantra of compassion. Photo by Tate Swindell.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 90&#8217;s</title>
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Harold Norse at North Beach&#8217;s Beat Museum with proprietor Jerry Cimino, 2007. Photo by Tate Swindell.
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		<title>Albion Street photo</title>
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Poet Harold Norse in his apartment kitchen, 157 Albion Street, San Francisco, May 28, 1988 &#8211; for HN with old Affection from Allen Ginsberg AH (c. Allen Ginsberg Estate)
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		<title>Albion Street photo</title>
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Harold Norse, March 4, 1988. Harold Norse is a small man, but exudes a certain brawn. He also delights in being the bad boy, a quality that struck me as particularly Catholic. These aspects of Norse led me to photograph him thusly in the mud room of his Mission District apartment. By Rob Lee.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 90&#8217;s</title>
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Monday, July 16, 2007. Legendary queer beat poet and writer Harold Norse, who&#8217;s very much alive and kicking, celebrated his 91st birthday on Sunday at the funky Beat Museum in North Beach. Surrounded by many dear friends and admirers, Norse read from his work, spoke about his Beat life, ate a slice of chocolate birthday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 90&#8217;s</title>
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Harold signing books for a line of fans. From The Petrelis Files. Photo by Tate Swindell.
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		<title>Harold Norse in his 90&#8217;s</title>
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Monday, July 16, 2007. Two crotchety, opinionated, veteran queers giving each other the &#8220;Yeah, right. Who the hell do you think you are?&#8221; look. Harold on the right, Michael Petrelis on the left. From The Petrelis Files. Photo by Tate Swindell.
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		<title>Photo of Harold</title>
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Harold Norse, a poet, writer and painter from the USA. He moved in to Bob and Ver&#8217;s room long after they had left. In the &#8220;City Lights Journal&#8221; he wrote, in February 1963; &#8220;Last September I got Room 9 at 9, Rue Git-le Coeur on the 9th day of the 9th month&#8230;. In the cabbala, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Business of Poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The business of poetry
is the image of a young man
making music and love
to a girl whose interest
in love and music coincides
with an enormous despair in both
their inner selves like a plucked
guitar in the dry hot sun of
hope where savage and brutal men
are tearing life like a page
from a very ancient
and yellow
book
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		<title>Classic Frieze in a Garage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was walking thru the city past umber embassies 
               &#38; pine-lined palaces 
                              fat palms beside balconies 
                       the heat something 
                                   you could really touch
                                     the kids with cunning 
                                         delinquent faces 
                                  after americano sailors
            -thinking of nerval    tends-moi le pausilippe 
                  et la mer d&#8217;Italie &#38; living 
                          on the hill         posillipo          [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Island of Giglio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[we sailed into the harbor
all the church bells rang
the main street on the crescent shore
hung iridescent silks from windows
stucco housefronts gleamed
rose, pistachio, peach
and a procession sang
behind a surpliced priest
carrying a burnished Christ
when I set foot on shore
a youth emerged from the crowd
barefoot and olive-skinned
and we climbed up rocky slopes
till dusk fell and close to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piccolo Paradiso</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Piccolo Paradiso
let the age hang itself!  we&#8217;ve had 
four marvelous days together 
       no news reports        only music 
               &#38; no serious discussions 
 
plenty of wine        the best 
from the islands 
     white 
        falerno &#38;  ischian 
            &#38; lacrima cristi 
                                   we&#8217;ve made up 
                              for months 
                 of loneliness 
                     hard work 
                       [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnivorous Saint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[we dig up ancient shards
clicking cameras
among the dying cypresses
choked by Athenian smog.
yet cats continue basking
in the hazy sun
the chained goat sways in ecstasy
the Parthenon looks down from creamy heights
lichen and rust nibble the pediments
and tourist feet break the spell
of antiquity’s vibrations
the grass hits
as I look at rusty orangeade caps
thinking Who needs nuclear Apollo?
thermonuclear Minerva?
Nike crashing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’m Not a Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m not a man, I can’t earn a living, buy new things for my family.
I have acne and a small peter.
I’m not a man. I don’t like football, boxing and cars.
I like to express my feeling. I even like to put an arm
around my friend’s shoulder.
I’m not a man. I won’t play the role assigned [...]]]></description>
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