Tuesday, August 29, 2017

"'88' Poems" by Richard Brautigan

On this day in 1952, according to the Associated Press, "the composition 4'33" ('Four Minutes, Thirty-three Seconds') by avant-garde composer John Cage premiered in Woodstock, New York, as David Tudor sat down at a piano and, for four minutes and 33 seconds, played . . . nothing."

Here is a blank poem by Richard Brautigan that first appeared in his poetry collection Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt (1970).


"88" POEMS























Richard Brautigan (1935-1984)
To read a biography of Richard Brautigan, click here.

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