Burlington Snow

Title

Burlington Snow

Subject

Counterculture

Description

Roz Payne was long-time friends with Allen Ginsberg. During a visit to Burlington for a reading at the Maverick Bookstore in 1986, he composed this poem about the city and its recently elected socialist mayor, Bernie Sanders. Ginsberg left the poem with Payne.

Creator

Allen Ginsberg

Source

Roz Payne

Publisher

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date

February 21, 1986

Format

handwritten

Type

poem

Original Format

paper

Citation

Allen Ginsberg, “Burlington Snow,” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed December 18, 2024, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/496.

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