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*Jack Kerouac Alley (formerly Adler Alley or Adler Place) is a one-way alleyway in Chinatown, San Francisco, California that connects Grant Avenue and Columbus Avenue, running between "Vesuvio Cafe"
(255 Columbus Ave.) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "City Lights Books" (261 Columbus Ave.).
Michael McClure
1932
"I don't know who mentioned William Blake first, but Allen talked about his visions of Blake and I told him about my dreams of being Blake.” - Michael McClure
“We all had our foot on the line. We all believed in that line and none of us have gone back.”
- Michael McClure
“In the age where the eight-cylinder Buick, the grey flannel suit and the tract home represented wholesomeness, ... Semina was the ultimate unwholesome object, and we gloried in it.”
- Michael McClure
“By the time Allen read 'Howl' -- and when Snyder then read 'The Berry Feast,' the first deep-ecology poem -- we felt that a body had been thrown against the barricades,”
- Michael McClure
“I don't know who mentioned William Blake first, but Allen talked about his visions of Blake and I told him about my dreams of being Blake.”
- Michael McClure
"We had gone beyond a point of no return- and we were ready for it, for a point of no return...We wanted voice and we wanted vision." -Michael McClure
“We all had our foot on the line. We all believed in that line and none of us have gone back.”
- Michael McClure
“The secret of what we do with this spread attack is that you have to be able to run the ball. It (also) helps if your quarterback can run a little.”
- Michael McClure
“Allen and I were wallflowers among the lordly and academic figures,” - Michael McClure
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