Prose
- You Didn't Even Try. Coyote, San Francisco 1967. (novel)
- Imaginary Speeches for a Brazen Head. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles 1972. (novel)
- Off the Wall: Interviews with Philip Whalen. Donald Allen, editor. Grey Fox Press, Bolinas, California 1978.
- The Diamond Noodle. Poltroon Press, Berkeley 1980. (memoirs)
- Two Novels. Zephyr Press, Somerville, Mass. 1985.
- Goof Book (for Jack Kerouac). Big Bridge Press, Guerneville, Calif. 2001. (journal)
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Famous quotes containing the word prose:
“Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
““There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,
Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on,
Whose prose is grand verse, while his verse, the Lord knows,
Is some of it pr—No, ‘t is not even prose;
I’m speaking of metres;”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)