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Beat Reunion, By Michael Perkins

(A reminiscence written in 1996.) The life of Herbert Huncke, who died this year at the age of 81, was celebrated by his friends and admirers on a gray day in late November at the Friends Meeting House in Manhattan. … Continue reading

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More Rimbaud

Early in Patti Smith’s Just Kids I read, “My compatriot from college, Janet Hamill, bolstered my morale,” and I thought, “Hey, I’ve met Janet Hamill! She’s part of the Warwick Poetry Posse.” Now, to be fair, there is no Warwick … Continue reading

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Go Rimbaud!

I missed Rimbaud as a teen. Instead, I was fascinated by Norman Mailer, that pugnacious celebrity who’d written the Great World War II Novel fresh out of Harvard and then gone on to help invent New Journalism staring himself as … Continue reading

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