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A Note Before the First. An index of Subjects. The subjects: 1: Kenneth Rexroth’s Classics Revisited. 2: The Tale of Genji. 3: The poetry of Daniel Huws. 4: The novels of Jonis Agee. 5: Five (or twelve) great mysteries. 6: The literature of the Blasket Islands. 7: Zen: Shunryū Suzuki, Robert Aitken, R.H. Blyth, and Brian Victoria’s Zen At War. 8: The letters of Van Gogh, Keats, Helene Hanff, and the Shaw-Terry correspondence. 9: The journals of Pepys, Thoreau and Dorothy Wor
#296: O MY AMERICA! In 1929, the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca went to New York City, to study English at Columbia University. The poems that came of that visit, gathered in The Poet in New York, represents his furthest step into the mode of surrealism, summed up a few years earlier by Andre Breton as “the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca went to New Yorkomnipotence of dreams” over reason and logic, heavily influenced by Freud and the power of unconscious thought,
