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**arcaniagainee** · 06-04-2012, 06:44 PM

Earlier today I posted the above piece about The Beats. That movement of poetry, which found its origins back in the mid-to-late 1940s when I was a child, was on my mind today. I post the following 2 prose-poems to give the above piece more of a context for those with an interest in this subject, this movement in the world of poetry and the arts.-Ron Price
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A SLOW BURNING

The poet is at the movies dreaming the film-maker’s dream but differently; the endless strips of celluloid are, for him, a fire in the dark, a fire of an unconscious enthrallment to his creative conception and a slow burning, a maturing by sensation and watchfulness.-Ron Price with thanks to John Keats, Herbert Read and Franz Kafka in Laurence Goldstein’s, The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbour, 1993, front page; and Herbert Read’s, The True Voice of Feeling: Studies in English Romantic Poetry, Faber and Faber, London, 1953, p.57 and 71.

There was a revolution taking place
back then, unbeknownst to my eye
and ear, as Bob Dylan and The Beatles
took the world by storm and rock-and-
roll was born and I pioneered to the next
town and the next and the next, starting
in the summer of ’62, as the mantle of poetry
passed from Kerouac, Ginsberg and the beats
to a whole new voice and I struggled to get
through it all, through depression and some
kind of mania, bought my first record: Barry
McGuire’s ‘The Eve of Destruction’, borrowed
my Mother’s LP ‘The Messiah’ and went off to
change the world with those sweet-scented streams,
a small prayer book and something, just born then,
we called by that rather publically pretentious name:

The Universal House of Justice.1

1 The international and democratically elected body of the Baha’i community which came into existence in 1963 as the fully institutionalized charisma, to use Weber’s term, of a prophetic, a poetic phenomenon that has no reference points in the contemporary world. It is associated, rather, with climactic changes of direction in the collective past of the human race. For this charismatic Force in the person of Bahá’u’lláh, claimed to be no less than the Messenger of God to the age of human maturity, the Bearer of a Divine Revelation that fulfils the promises made in earlier religions, and a Force that will generate, over many generations as Christianity did 2000 years ago, the spiritual nerves and sinews for the unification of the peoples of the world.

Ron Price
22 June 1997
(updated: 8/1/08)

06-04-2012, 06:44 PM	#2
arcaniagainee Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 486 Senior Member	Earlier today I posted the above piece about The Beats. That movement of poetry, which found its origins back in the mid-to-late 1940s when I was a child, was on my mind today. I post the following 2 prose-poems to give the above piece more of a context for those with an interest in this subject, this movement in the world of poetry and the arts.-Ron Price ---------------------------- A SLOW BURNING The poet is at the movies dreaming the film-maker’s dream but differently; the endless strips of celluloid are, for him, a fire in the dark, a fire of an unconscious enthrallment to his creative conception and a slow burning, a maturing by sensation and watchfulness.-Ron Price with thanks to John Keats, Herbert Read and Franz Kafka in Laurence Goldstein’s, The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbour, 1993, front page; and Herbert Read’s, The True Voice of Feeling: Studies in English Romantic Poetry, Faber and Faber, London, 1953, p.57 and 71. There was a revolution taking place back then, unbeknownst to my eye and ear, as Bob Dylan and The Beatles took the world by storm and rock-and- roll was born and I pioneered to the next town and the next and the next, starting in the summer of ’62, as the mantle of poetry passed from Kerouac, Ginsberg and the beats to a whole new voice and I struggled to get through it all, through depression and some kind of mania, bought my first record: Barry McGuire’s ‘The Eve of Destruction’, borrowed my Mother’s LP ‘The Messiah’ and went off to change the world with those sweet-scented streams, a small prayer book and something, just born then, we called by that rather publically pretentious name: The Universal House of Justice.1 1 The international and democratically elected body of the Baha’i community which came into existence in 1963 as the fully institutionalized charisma, to use Weber’s term, of a prophetic, a poetic phenomenon that has no reference points in the contemporary world. It is associated, rather, with climactic changes of direction in the collective past of the human race. For this charismatic Force in the person of Bahá’u’lláh, claimed to be no less than the Messenger of God to the age of human maturity, the Bearer of a Divine Revelation that fulfils the promises made in earlier religions, and a Force that will generate, over many generations as Christianity did 2000 years ago, the spiritual nerves and sinews for the unification of the peoples of the world. Ron Price 22 June 1997 (updated: 8/1/08)
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