Ancient Acid Flashes Back

by Louis, Adrian C.

• ISBN13: 9780874173529
• ISBN10: 0874173523
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr

Summary

Adrian C. Louis's hardhitting and edgy tenth volume of poetry is derived from recollections of the poet's wild times in San Francisco in the late sixties.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
A Prayer Opens the Floodgates	1	(2)
The Boy Hears Distant Drums from Across the Sierras	3	(2)
Bad Orange Sunshine Flashback	5	(2)
On Love Street	7	(2)
Reductio Ad Absurdum	9	(2)
A Few Indians Are Around	11	(2)
Love Strikes	13	(1)
Maya Wu's Eyes	14	(1)
Head Lines	15	(1)
Aquarius	16	(1)
Panhandlers' Picnic	17	(1)
Desperate Days	18	(1)
Brautigan: 1967	19	(1)
Kaufman: 1968	20	(1)
Speed Freaks on Stanyan	21	(2)
Dark Circle	23	(1)
Sharon, A Pretty Blond Cheerleader	24	(1)
At the Coffee Gallery	25	(1)
She Speaks, He Listens	26	(1)
Listening to The Doors	27	(1)
Higher Than Holy Rollers	28	(1)
Peyote Dream	29	(1)
Free Maya Wu	30	(1)
Shoshone Boots	31	(2)
May Wu's Works	33	(1)
Indian Girls on Polk Street	34	(1)
Paiute Girl	35	(1)
Psychedelic Buddha	36	(1)
Comanche	37	(2)
Chasing a Ghost	39	(2)
The Boy Distinctly Remembers	41	(1)
Girl from Outer Space	42	(2)
Glossolalia	44	(2)
At the Freight Yards	46	(1)
Blind Hippie Girl	47	(1)
Mescaline	48	(1)
The Whipping Snake Dream	49	(2)
The Boy Runs into Maya Wu at Morningstar Commune	51	(1)
Pacific Highway: 1968	52	(1)
Mission Street Crash Pad	53	(1)
San Francisco: 1969	54	(2)
His Unsent Letter to Maya Wu	56	(3)
Ancient Acid Flashes Back	59	(2)
April 24, 1971	61	(1)
Requiems for Dead Dreams	62	(1)
Vanilla Fudge	63	(1)
Trees, Rush Limbaugh, & the Failed Exorcism of Maya Wu's Ghost	64	(2)
It Was a World of Ideas	66	(1)
Postscript: A Case Study	67	(3)
About the Author	70