Louis Simpson
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Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (born March 27, 1923, in the United States) is a Jamaican poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At The End Of The Open Road.
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- Where is the Mississippi panorama
And the girl who played the piano?
Where are you, Walt?
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.- Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain (l. 6-9) (1962)
- All that grave weight of America
Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome.
The future in ruins!- Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain (l. 35-37) (1962)
- It's complicated, being an American,
Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.
Perhaps, after all, this is not the right subject for a poem.- On the Lawn at the Villa (l. 14-16) (1980)
- For people may not know what they think
about politics in the Balkans,
or the vexed question of men and women,
but everyone has a definite opinion
about the flavour of shredded coconut.- Chocolates (l. 18-22) (1980)
