In Memory Of Lawrence Ferlinghetti
GOODBYE PORKPIE HAT – Recording by Charles Mingus
Goodbye Porkpie Hat poem by Kurt Edward Biehl MD
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LINK TO POEM: https://kurtbiehl.com/goodbye-porkpie-hat/
Although Alan Ginsburg is commonly considered the best of the Beat-era Poets, my favorite has always been Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Coney Island of the Mind captured the feel of the 50’s – and era prior to my birth that is imbued with a sense of my pre-corporeal Self.
Ferlinghetti’s writing is deft, clean, concise, and vivid: his poems are black-and-white snapshots that invoke nostalgia for the decade prior to my birth.
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About Køt Biehl
I am a psychiatrist in private practice with 25 years experience in multiple settings including long-term inpatient, acute inpatient, partial hospitalization, outpatient, hospital consultation, long term psychodynamic psychotherapy, brief psychotherapy, and even electroconvulsive therapy. I am board certified in general psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine.
My interests are many. I bore easily. I am fascinated by shamanic healing, particle physics, quantum theory, Schubert, Brahms, Schoenberg, Jung, Reik, Pynchon, Proust, Mark Strand, John Berryman, Richard Feinman, Wharhol, Pollock, Kandinsky, Miro, audiophile stereo reproduction, rocks on the beach, and small shiny objects.
