Mon 30 Jan 2006
happy birthday
Posted by jen under community
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as today (jan 30th) would have been richard’s 71st birthday, take a few minutes to read your favourite story or remember him in someway. feel free to click the ‘comments’ button and tell us how you’re going to do that.
Today, Jan. 30, 2006, the Gilpin County Public Library will be having a Brautigan Birthday Tribute and Poetry Reading beginning at 7 p.m.
I will be doing a research paper on Richard Brautigan for my junior Honors English class. This is my first time visiting the site, and I haven’t had much of a chance to look around. However, I’d like to thank you in advance for all of the work you have put into managing this site, and I hope we can keep in touch…for the sake of my grade.
Arec Ligon
Since moving back to California, my entire life’s focus has been the pursuit of my artistic vision. I have been writing prolifically, in the Kerouacian tradition, and Brautigan has been central in a string of coincidences that have all contributed to my confidence concerning the path that I am on and the certainty that it is the right one.
I find myself on this page, making this comment because of yet another improbable string of hyperlinks. While researching my current Brautigan-centered book, I learned of the birth of the beats in SF, where my research is centered. A hyperlink with the name of the 6 Gallery was the only one that I clicked on, as it was contained in the sentence, “The reading at the Six Gallery caused a literary sensation and introduced the idea of the Beat Generation to the world.”
That click brought me to the litkicks.com website, where I was taken aback by the fact that the “Today in Literature” section read as follows: “On January 30: Jack Spicer … Shirley Hazzard … Richard Brautigan … Read more …” Clicking on the link “Read more…” brought me to a page that said, “On January 30th…
1/30/1925: Jack Spicer born.
Poet Jack Spicer is born in 1925.
1/30/1931: Shirley Hazzard born.
Australian/American novelist and short story writer Shirley Hazzard is born in 1931.
1/30/1935: Richard Brautigan born.
Washington-born tragic hippie-surrealist author Richard Brautigan is born in 1935.”
Clicking on Richard Brautigan’s name brought forth yet another litkicks page, a very informative biography on the man, at the conclusion of which, two links. One I was familiar with, as “The Abortion: An Historical Romance, 1966″ had inspired it, and this one.
Here I am, living the dream, pursuing the artistic adherance that Brautigan perpetuated, continuing to be amazed by the man, his influence, and the Romantic Possiblity of a Public Library in California.
i will recite a poem in my high school poetry class and tell why i like it.
Hi I didn’t remember the date
but I love Brautigan’s books
my blog about my life with my son who’s got a genetic disorder is called “sucre de pasteque” (it’s in french) a tribute to Brautigan’s in watermelon sugar.
And first of february that’s what I posted on my blog
http://monulysses.blogspot.com/2006/02/sucre-de-pasteque.html
Thanks for this site.
very interesting
I’ll come back
1961
park elementary school
no one messed with the smallest kid in class;
his mother was a real munchkin
from the real movie.
He bought me a green popcorn ball at the IGA in case I got caught in a snowstorm going over the pass.
My hands have become like the bad ends of magnets and when I go to touch someone, I push them away.