San Francisco
This poem was found written on a paper bag by Richard Brautigan in a laundromat in San Francisco. The author is unknown.
Richard Brautigan, “San Francisco” from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster. Copyright © 1968 by Richard Brautigan. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Poet Richard Brautigan 1935–1984
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
SCHOOL / PERIOD Beat
Subjects Humor & Satire, Arts & Sciences
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
Terence Malley observed in his Richard Brautigan: Writers for the Seventies, "In general, people who write or talk about Brautigan tend to be either snidely patronizing or vacuously adoring." Certainly Brautigan's work, perhaps due in part to his association with West Coast youth movements, generated a multitude of critical comment. Robert Novak wrote in Dictionary of Literary Biography that "Brautigan is commonly seen as the . . .
Poems by Richard Brautigan
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SUBJECT Humor & Satire, Arts & Sciences
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
SCHOOL / PERIOD Beat
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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