At the California Institute of Technology
NOTES: Written January 24, 1967 while poet-in-residence at the California Institute of Technology.
Richard Brautigan, “At the California Institute of Technology” 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 School & Learning, Sciences, Arts & Sciences, Activities, Poetry & Poets
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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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 . . .
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SUBJECT School & Learning, Sciences, Arts & Sciences, Activities, Poetry & Poets
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
SCHOOL / PERIOD Beat
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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