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 * ~  ||   || ===Some other 50s poets . .=== || === === ||
 * Allen Ginsberg - Stephani, Al

Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Viola Lasmana, Christine F

Jack Kerouac - Ned Buskirk; Dustin Jones

Gary Snyder - alden, ryan, jack

Gregory Corso - Meagan, Christine Vo,

Philip Whalen - Ilse, Angela

Michael McClure : Jessica Schad, Joseph Dierking

Kenneth Rexroth - Denise, Caroline ||  ||< "A Woman Too Well Remembered" Louis Simpson (Partisan Review 1955)

Having put on new fashions, she demands New friends. She trades her beauty and her humor In anybody’s eyes. If diamonds Were dark, they’d sparkle so. Her aura is The glance of scandal and the speed of rumor.

One day, as I recall, when we conversed In kisses, it amused her to transmit “What hath God wrought!”-the message that was first Sent under the Atlantic. Nonsense, yet It pleases me sometimes to think of it.

//Noli me tangere //  was not her sign. Her pilgrim trembled with the softest awe. She was the only daughter of a line That sleeps in poetry and silences. She might have sat upon the Sphinx’s paw.

Then is she simply false, and falsely fair? (The promise she would break she never made) I cannot say, but truly can compare, For when the stars move like a steady fire I think of her, and other faces fade. ||< "Dancers" Donald Hall (1958)

Bowing he asks her the favor; Blushing she answers she will; Waltzing they turn through the ballroom Swift in their skill.

Blinder than buffers of autumn Deaf but to music's delight They dance like the puppets of music All through the night.

Out of the ball they come dancing And into the marketing day, Waltzing through ignorant traffic, Bound to be gay.

They slacken and stoop, they are tired, They walk in a weather of pain; Now wrinkles dig into their faces, Harsh as rain.

They walk by identical houses And enter the one they know. They are old, and their children like houses Stand in a row. ||

Allen Ginsberg - Stephani, Al Harahap

Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Viola Lasmana, Christine F

Jack Kerouac - Ned Buskirk; Dustin Jones

Gary Snyder - alden, ryan, jack

Gregory Corso - Meagan, Christine Vo,

Philip Whalen - Ilse, Angela

Michael McClure : Jessica Schad, Joseph Dierking

Kenneth Rexroth - Denise, Caroline