On the eve of Election Day 2008, some thoughts from NBCC Sandrof award winner Lawrence Ferlinghetti, an outtake from former NBCC prez John Freeman's "Hopes for a Happy Ending: Literary Voices on the American Election:"
"It
has been a long idealist dream that someday society life on earth would
evolve in such a way that dissident writers and intellectuals would no
longer have to be dissident. There are similarities between Obama and
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, but they do not point to any real political or
social revolution. JFK was not a revolutionary, and he would not have
turned into one if he had lived.
Don't worry about dissident poetry
Lawrence Ferlinghetti puts us all to rest.