M. Rosen

Dec 10, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Kendall Gardner |Francesca Newton |Jacob E. Lazarus |M. Rosen

When discussed at all today, the poet Harry Fainlight is remembered as a countercultural casualty par excellence. As noted in one of the only critical appraisals of his work to date, "both the avant-garde and the establishment championed" Fainlight, and from a distance it is easy to see why. By the age of thirty, he had cruised with Allen Ginsberg, boozed with Jack Kerouac, and posed for Andy Warhol, as well as managing to feud with everyone from Robert Graves to Ted Hughes.