John Wieners

John Wieners

beatnik beat poetry

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About John Wieners

John Joseph Wieners (6 January 1934 – 1 March 2002) was an American lyric poet. Born in Milton, Massachusetts, Wieners attended St. Gregory Elementary School in Dorchester, Massachusetts and Boston College High School. From 1950 to 1954, he studied at Boston College, where he earned his A.B. In 1954 he heard Charles Olson read at the Charles Street Meeting House on Beacon Hill during Hurricane Hazel. He decided to enroll at Black Mountain College where he studied under Olson and Robert Duncan from 1955 to 1956.

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In Public

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excerpt from Memories in a Small Apartment

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A Poem For Cocksuckers

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A Poem For The Old Man

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The Garbos and Dietrichs

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ELIZABETH TAYLOR IS MY SISTER, 1/6/71, 3:15.

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Loss

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The Mole Proposes Solitude

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Procrastination

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After Symond's Venice

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