Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

Activity

You added a note
2 months, 3 weeks ago

I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night

Whereas the counterculture as a culture, as a way of life ... you can't catch up with it, it's in the bloodstream of society. You can't pin it down. Its effect is continuously corrosive. It's these capsules they stick in people that keep feeding medicine into their bloodstream for twenty years. The…

—p.42 The San Francisco Poets Kenneth Rexroth (9) by David Meltzer
You added a note
2 months, 3 weeks ago

is The Grapes of Wrath true?

I was sort of the outdoor organizer for the John Reed Club. I was organizer of everything in the West, and, of course, the New York apparatus thought the West started at Hoboken and that is one reason the Chicago organization was better the reason it had people like Dick Wright and Farrell and peop…

—p.11 Kenneth Rexroth (9) by David Meltzer
You edited a note
2 months, 3 weeks ago

the clubs became dominated by Bohemians

KR: I don't think there were very many people in the thirties. There were people in San Francisco who were writing and not publishing anything when I came. Most of those people became involved in red San Francisco. The interesting thing is that most of them became practical labor organizers, rather…

—p.10 Kenneth Rexroth (9) by Kenneth Rexroth
You added a note
2 months, 3 weeks ago

the clubs became dominated by Bohemians

KR: I don't think there were very many people in the thirties. There were people in San Francisco who were writing and not publishing anything when I came. Most of those people became involved in red San Francisco. The interesting thing is that most of them became practical labor organizers, rather…

—p.10 Kenneth Rexroth (9) by Kenneth Rexroth
You added a note
2 months, 3 weeks ago

America's speech waterfalls forth topic/americana

America's speech waterfalls forth in meltingpot tongues of Babel in

telegraphic ads, pop songs, street-corner rapping, bar room brag & bluster, bad-mouthing, put-ons, putdowns,

the home-made rhetorics of Whitman, Melville, Andrew Jackson Davis, L. Ron Hubbard; the streamclear prose of Thoreau…

—p.1 Golden Gate: Introduction (1) by David Meltzer