"It is thrilling to watch the drama develop!" Allen GinsbergSo quoth one of the 20th century's most well-known poets - and not about the latest piece of manufactured pop culture suspense, be it from John Grisham or Jerry Bruckheimer, but about the poetic work of John Wieners. Wieners, unknown to so many today, was schooled at the famed Black Mountain College and, taking his cue from contemporaneous poets, focused his art on such themes as drugs, sex, and homosexuality.Considered by many to be a most undeservedly unrecognized genius, in this collection "Wieners' glory is solitary, as pure poet" (Ginsberg). Certainly, Wieners has the capacity, as great poets must, to heighten and change one's consciousness of the world; this collection brings the pains and joys of a unique man, the Weltanschauung of one who has seen more than most, to the willing reader. DAVID ASPELIN died at 16put a rifle in his mouth, and laid across his bed at night. After he held my hand on the way home and said  I will be dead tomorrow.("A Poem for the Dead I Know")

Selected Poems 1958-1984

Literature & Fiction

John Wieners

Poetry

Black Sparrow Press

Poetry. Michael Carr is the editor of A BOOK OF PROPHESIES, a notebook by John Wieners written in 1971, and found in a collection at Kent State University. Assisted by an advisory group made up of Jim Dunn, Raymond Foye, and Charlie Shively, Bootstrap has made arrangements to publish this gem of history which opens with a piece titled '2007' that foreshadows the surreal and prophetic landscape in which we live--one that is positively past post-modern and pop culture.

A Book of Prophecies

Bootstrap Press

Supplication: Selected Poems

Enitharmon Press

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Books by John Wieners