The Importance of Reading Ernest discussion

Anyone interested in one of Ernest's suppressed poems???

Let me know.

Gary

really?: no interest?? these were published but banned in the united states.
i thought people were always interested in things the censors banned!ha!

I'd like to take a look at those Gary. Where'd you find them?

is this some part of some academic?

it's a little booklet i bought in key west florida, for $1.98.

shall i share one of the poems with you?????

please

here's one..... there are others..... i can share as many as you want. name your poison.....

here goes.....

THE ERNEST LIBERAL'S LAMENT

I know monks masturbate at night
That pet cats screw
That some girls bite
And yet
What can I do
To set things right?

more poems???? *evil smirk* lol!

I don't think Hemingway was intending to be sober when he wrote that. But did you also notice he forgot to add in a character of his liking. (so...what's the ISBN of this book?)

doesn't have one that i can see.

it's a pamphlet

This isn't for real, is it? It feels like some Key West hoaxster.

no, it's for real. i have the book in front of me.originally published in paris. i had heard about it,and then i saw it in THE KEYWEST BOOKSTORE ,which is a very well thought of used bookstore in old town of keywest.

Cool. I am going to have to find it. Keep the poems coming.

ULTIMATELY

He tried to spit out the truth;
Dry-mouthed at first,
He drooled and slobbered in the end;
Truth dribbling his chin.

(more in the morning, i am so tired. ha! this is me, not hemingway!)

NEO-THOMIST POEM

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not
want him for long.

They're a bit like Bierce's Devil's Dictionary.

THE AGE DEMANDED

The age demanded that we sing
And cut away our tongue.

The age demanded that we flow
And hammered in the bung.

The age demanded that we dance
And jammed us into iron pants.

And in the end the age was handed
The sort of shit that it demanded.

shall i keep sharing,or had enough? there's more in this little booklet.

You mentioned that these were suppressed? Who did the suppressing? Was it Hemingway himself? Scribners? Max Perkins?

all it says is THE LIBRARY OF LIVING POETRY ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN PARIS, 1923. doesn't say who suppressed them. maybe the censors in the states?

there's actually other dates on some of the poems, i.e. 1925, 1929, etc.

I found this web link, it has some of these poems linked, http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources...

thanks, arthur!!! i printed off the I LIKE AMERICANS poem, because it's not in my book. the rest of them on this site pretty much are. so, brad, i'll let you look at the website,and read the rest of the poems on there for yourself, since i've had to type those on here,and i picked the shorter ones to type first, on purpose. lol!

thanks arthur.

btw, brad, i never did get your ROSE FOR EMILY story you said you'd email me, buddy. did you forget? or did i not receive it for some reason???/
gary

From the above mentioned site.

Montparnasse

There are never any suicides in the quarter among people one knows
No successful suicides.
A Chinese boy kills himself and is dead.
(they continue to place his mail in the letter rack at the Dome)
A Norwegian boy kills himself and is dead.
(no one knows where the other Norwegian boy has gone)
They find a model dead
alone in bed and very dead.
(it made almost unbearable trouble for the concierge)
Sweet oil, the white of eggs, mustard and water, soap suds
and stomach pumps rescue the people one knows.
Every afternoon the people one knows can be found at the café.

by Ernest Hemingway