Richard Brautigan
Who is Richard Brautigan
Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – c. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. A prolific writer, he wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four books of poetry. Brautigan's work has been published both in the United States and internationally throughout Europe, Japan, and China. He is best known for his novels Trout Fishing in America (1967), In Watermelon Sugar (1968), and The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (1971).
Brautigan began his career as a poet, with his first collection being published in 1957. He made his debut as a novelist with A Confederate General from Big Sur (1964), about a seemingly delusional man who believes himself to be the descendant of a Confederate gener...
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Richard Brautigan Poems
- Milk For The Duck
ZAP!
unlaid / 20 days
...
- Just Because
Just because
people love your mind,
doesn't mean they
have to have
...
- The Beautiful Poem
I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you.
...
- Surprise
I lift the toliet seat
as if it were the nest of a bird
and I see cat tracks
all around the edge of the bowl....
- The Galilee Hitch-hiker
The Galilee Hitch-Hiker
Part 1
Baudelaire was
...
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- Ma_rielagache: « it seemed
like years
before
i picked
a bouquet
of kisses
off her mouth
and put them
into a dawn-colored vase
in
my
heart.
but
the wait
was worth it.
because
i
was
in love. »
the wait-richard brautigan
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- Ssleger: "it's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult."
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