Selected Poems

by Ed Dorn

Ultimately Lew's poems are devotional songs to the Goddess Gaia . . . -Gary Snyder This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912516321
• ISBN13: 9780912516325
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Grey Fox Press
• Length: 92 Pages

Customer Reviews

beat poet on a lifelong search for self

This book was my first introduction to Lew Welch and I came out of it feeling as if I knew him. It includes poems, songs and even a couple drawings by him and in its own dizzying way documents Welch's search for his totem animal. Early in his life he feels he is Leo, a lion, but eventually accepts that he is a turkey buzzard. Full of nuances and silliness, I have to read it four more times to unravel his (then) contemporary and ancient allusions. One example of his simple brilliance:(included in a section in which he sums up his education, subject by subject)BOTANYConsider the Passion Flower:Who'd ever think a plant would go to/ so much troublejust to get f--ked/ by a Bee.