Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm - email Debora for link for her Zoom Office hours
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| Poem To Tamara, #4 and Poem To Spain #1 |
Poem To Tamara #4 & Poem To Spain #1
Ha! Night of laughter tonight
I love life
I love you
Lovelovelove
Youlife
Not just love like people say “I love you” and kiss and lie to each other and themselves
but real love
joy’s love
I love you because
I love life because
it’s magnificent it’s pure, apart from words, f**k words—I much prefer joy
What is the word for joyous laughter?
How do you spell the sound of laughter?
Words—ecch! YOU (the critic) say: “Lester Bangs—a bad imitation of e.e. cummings.”
The book critic says, “Jack Kerouac—a bad imitation of Thomas Wolfe[1]”
And I say let all that rot its stinking carcass in hell
And I keep splattering words across the page
like rain
in spain
Spain is me tonight
I’ve been reading and listening to Spain
It’s all a joy ————>
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Spewshel
and Laughter of the Child
Spain
mountains exploding purple against brilliant Andalusian sky
endless plains, with joy swirling and falling all over itself like a mad fountain, the burro on the mountainside, there, everywhere, bounding down the slopes, the clouds ragged overhead
Simplicity is………………..ignorance.
Who gives a damn?
I don’t defend ignorance (yes, I do), but why shouldn’t the Spanish peasant be ignorant of the complexity of American life?
Why save the world when you don’t live in it? Why save “civilization” of cities, war, soot, grime, mechanization, thisandthatandtheotherinanity (insanity) when you live in heaven, on the hills of beautiful Spain, far removed from it?
Why fight the rockandrollers when you can sit and listen to Spanish music?
Openmouthed joy shouts at blue sky which laughs back in lost purity of freedom—all passion, beauty—in joy, in tears—one mother of the angelic Iberian universe.—
—These dreams make me realize there’s something better than this environment, than dishes in the sink and indescribable American filth.————Years from now, darling, in Spain. There we will forget.
[1] Wolfe, Thomas Clayton. b. 1900. Early 20th century American novelist extolled by contemporary William Faulkner as potentially the best talent of their generation, and highly influential to Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac.
Debora Curry
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Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
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