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Ken Elton Kesey (/ ˈ k iː z iː /; September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
Writing in Westerly Lawrence Bourke noted: "Possible Worlds which carries the Poetry Book Society Recommendation is a delight. As with other Porter books the reading of anyone poem gains by reading it alongside others, where recurrent ideas, images and key words illuminate, refer to and sometimes contradict each other, and the difficulties if not entirely massaged away, smooth out enough to ...
"The Sot-Weed Factor: Or, a Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr" is a satirical poem written by British-American poet Ebenezer Cooke , and first published in London in 1708. Content
John Sinclair, a poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison sentence after a series of small-time pot busts inspired a John Lennon song and a star-studded 1971 concert to ...
Legalizing marijuana in America and Canada is one of the greatest mistakes of all time," he told Time. In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first U.S. states to legalize marijuana for ...
The Sot-Weed Factor is the title of two related literary works: "The Sot-Weed Factor" (poem) , an 18th-century satirical poem by Ebenezer Cooke The Sot-Weed Factor (novel) , a 1960 novel by John Barth
The Oxford English Dictionary's definition of weed is "an article of apparel; a garment", and is consistent with the theme of mending, re-using, etc. ("all my best is dressing old words new"). [ 8 ] The "noted weed" of line 6 and the images of lines 7 and 8 seems to be echoed in a poem by Ben Jonson , published in the first pages of the First ...
Each space has a corresponding list of numbered fill-in-the-blank options, which grow increasingly absurd. The premise is that with appropriate mixing and matching, the article can be read in a vast number of permutations. The same format has also been applied by Jacobs to other areas as poetry, press releases, or speechmaking.