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Louie Gohmert. Failed Beat Poet. (Original Post) Dennis Donovan May 2020 OP
Louie Gohmert is an idiot, but I am a big fan of Beat Poets. panader0 May 2020 #1
I've read a lot on the Beat poets and their friends. kskiska May 2020 #4
Gohmert Pile... cayugafalls May 2020 #2
Not just stupid, but also wrong flotsam May 2020 #3

panader0

(25,816 posts)
1. Louie Gohmert is an idiot, but I am a big fan of Beat Poets.
Fri May 15, 2020, 01:58 PM
May 2020

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and Alan Ginsberg to name but a few.
Not really a poet, but I loved Kerouac back in the day.

kskiska

(27,041 posts)
4. I've read a lot on the Beat poets and their friends.
Fri May 15, 2020, 09:06 PM
May 2020

I'd always wondered what became of Lu Anne Henderson and finally found a book about her - "One and Only - the untold story of "On the Road."

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
3. Not just stupid, but also wrong
Fri May 15, 2020, 06:24 PM
May 2020

John Stark who coined the term "Live free or die" survived the revolution and lived a full life;

It has been said[by whom?] that of all the Revolutionary War generals, Stark was the only true Cincinnatus because he truly retired from public life at the end of the war. In 1809, a group of Bennington veterans gathered to commemorate the battle. General Stark, then aged 81, was not well enough to travel, but he sent a letter to his comrades, which closed "Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils." The motto Live Free or Die became the New Hampshire state motto in 1945.-Wiki

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