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One of the Beat writers who made a big impression on me - in some ways the biggest because, while thinking of one of his poems, I turned my car around and skipped the job interveiw I was on my way to which could have started me down a long and tedious road in life - was Lew Welch. Check out his collection 'Ring of Bone' if you haven't already. Great stuff.
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Re: Lew Welch
Tue, March 16, 2004 - 5:36 PM1 of my favorite poems is a Welch poem...the 1 about going outside & drawing a circle in the ground.
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Re: Lew Welch
Tue, March 16, 2004 - 6:28 PMgary snyder calls his zendo in california "ring of bone zendo" after the poem. i bought the book of poems and love it also. kerouac's books "on the road" and "dharma bums" are what turned my head and life around. -
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Re: Lew Welch
Wed, March 17, 2004 - 2:34 AMInteresting that Gary Snyder would pay such a high tribute to Welch. I remember Snyder, during one of his readings years ago, going into a detailed story about contacting Welch's spirit after he died. They were close. -
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Re: Lew Welch
Fri, April 15, 2005 - 3:02 PMgary has a poem about that in fact. -
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for/from lew welch - gary snyder
Tue, April 19, 2005 - 8:04 PMLew Welch just turned up one day,
live as you and me. "Damn, Lew" I said,
"you didn't shoot yourself after all."
"Yes I did" he said,
and even then I felt the tingling down my back.
"Yes you did, too" I said—"I can feel it now."
"Yeah" he said,
"There's a basic fear between your world and
mine. I don't know why.
What I came to say was,
teach the children about the cycles.
The life cycles. All other cycles.
That's what it's all about, and it's all forgot."
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Re: Lew Welch
Wed, April 13, 2005 - 6:28 PMLew Welch started as an ad man on Madison Avenue in NYC. One of his slogans is still being used. In fact, if you think about it--it is a real 'beat' line:
"Raid kills bugs dead!"
