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Sixty-Seven Poems For Downtrodden Saints

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A lot of ink has been spilled on the "beat" writers but many of these beats spent much of their time in front of cameras and at writing conferences. Jack Micheline lived, breathed, laboured and endured as a street poet. He lived in run-down hotel rooms and captured what he saw.He writes about real people. This volume, done masterfully by Matt Gonzalez is an important contribution to real American literary history and not the media hype. I love all the photo's and Micheline art work and extra's.

unknown scrawling lyrical madness on boxcars of desire
too fast too fast ...
a street poet, not a beat poet
poet, even? sure
wordsmith of no reknown
kind kindred of whitman prosey past
knock down drag out breaking hearts
put it down long ago
i am finding out now
read it aloud in the streets of your youth
don't pretend to understand but leave a little room for the
beauty that is everywhere ...

at long last jack micheline has been given a fitting tribute...of course following in the great american tradition you must of course be dead to acquire fame and or at least a hint of reception...this is a fabulous collection of poetry artwork reviews and correspondence...this is the tip of an enormous unpublished iceberg that is the scattered works of jack micheline.