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Poet: Richard Brautigan (Richard Brautigan Art)
Poem: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Year: Published/Written in 1950
Comment 2 of 2, added on December 15th, 2008 at 2:18 PM.
For the earlier poster commenting on In Watermelon Sugar. Please be assured that it doesn't even come close to the best of Brautigan's prose.For that please read A Confederate General From Big Sur or The Hawkline Monster. Brautigan's gift for distillation, illustrated in this and other poems shows up also in a wonderful short very very short story from Revenge of the Lawn entitled The Scarlatti Tilt which I consider the par excellence white lightning of what a short story out to be and do.
cameron greer from United States
Comment 1 of 2, added on November 12th, 2008 at 12:31 AM.
im reading 'in watermelon sugar' which is kind of tripping me out... its very very abstract, im usually pretty astute at seeing metaphors but for the love of god if i read the words "watermelon" and "sugar" in another sentence after finishing this book ill have to slap myself!
anyway: THIS POEM IS AMAZING!
right up my alley so to speak... i was starting to wonder about brautigan but maybe ill give him a closer look.. im a big fan of chuck palahniuk, another author who tries to write in a different WAY which is at the very least brave in an artistic sense.
kudos to mr brautigan on this excellent poem.
some recent favs of mine:
"Crow" by Ted Hughes
"Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk
"One Door Away From Heaven" by Dean Koontz* (fans of brautigan should get a kick out of this one)
Rob from United States
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For the earlier poster commenting on In Watermelon Sugar. Please be assured that it doesn't even come close to the best of Brautigan's prose.For that please read A Confederate General From Big Sur or The Hawkline Monster. Brautigan's gift for distillation, illustrated in this and other poems shows up also in a wonderful short very very short story from Revenge of the Lawn entitled The Scarlatti Tilt which I consider the par excellence white lightning of what a short story out to be and do.
cameron greer from United States