Louis Simpson

Also known as Louis Aston Marantz Simpson

Jamaican-american poet

Top works

The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970
Wei Wei and Other Friends
The manual of lubrication, or, How to use lubricants for every description of machinery
Struggling Times
The New Poets of England and America

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2008 universal fire victimdixielandeasy listeninggospeljazzpop

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“When I was in hospital I found I could hardly read or writ. In these circumstances I began to write poems. I found that poetry was the only kind of writing in which I could express my thoughts. One night I dreamed I was lying on the bank of a canal, under machine gun fire. The next morning I wrote it out , Carentan O Caretan, and as I wrote I realized it was not a dream, but the memory of my first time under fire”
“Where is the Mississippi panoramaAnd the girl who played the piano?Where are you, Walt?The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.”
“All that grave weight of AmericaCancelled! Like Greece and Rome.The future in ruins! JH Honesty seems to me to be the best legacy I can leave the world.”
“It's complicated, being an American,Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.Perhaps, after all, this is not the right subject for a poem.”
“For people may not know what they thinkabout politics in the Balkans,or the vexed question of men and women,but everyone has a definite opinionabout the flavour of shredded coconut.”

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