Subject: Re: Heroin use and creativity Date: Thu, 3 Jun 99 18:47:46 -0000 From: rollison <djr4r-AT-virginia.edu> Naked Lunch and other Burroughs books from the 50s (Junky, Queer) fit the first part of your requirement, but I'm not sure about the second. If memory serves, I think poets John Wieners (The Hotel Wentley Poems) and Philip Lamantia were both heroin users, and their work from the 50s reflects this. Also Herbert Huncke, the honorary uncle (aunt) of the N.Y. beats, was a junkie and wrote a memoir and some stories. But among these maybe only the poetry demonstrates an explicit link with creativity. Damian (new to list) ________________________ The almost-not-believed Moon moved in ghost among the things we are made to believe or make to believe. "I was once Great Artemis" she whisperd. "I was once Madam Moon in full. But let me join the toys to hang in the window of Make Believe, for ride through the years we must by whatever ruse." --Robert Duncan, "Three Pages from a Birthday Book" --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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