A collection of poems by Philip Whalen, the great primary poet of the original Beat Generation & the San Francisco Renaissance, later a Zen Buddhist monk.
"Never Apologize; Never Explain," first stanza, pg. 1.
Excerpt
I need everything else
Anything else
Desperately
But I have nothing
Shall have nothing
but this
Immediate, inescapable
and invaluable
No one can afford
THIS
Being made here and now
