LPPM MMV "Sitting Shivah"

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Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> "... sitting shivah on an orange crate ..."

who coughed on the sixth floor of Harlem crowned with flame under the
tubercular sky surrounded by orange crates of theology, 


Naomi Ginsberg's window 1953
overlooked Woodlawn Cemetery
in the Bronx; see "Kaddish." 
                      

Poe wrote "Annabel Lee," "The
Bells,' "Ulalume" and "Eureka"
1846-48 in his Fordham cottage,
now moved to Grand Concourse,
Bronx. 

Russell Durgin (d.  August 28,
1985), Columbia 57 theology
student in whose sublet
apartment, 321 East 121st Street,
East Harlem, 198, author read 
William Blake, left Manhattan that
summer for medical treatment,
tubercular lungs.  Treatnent may
have  involved filling chest space
with celluloid balls to prevent
collapse. 
 "Orange crates of theology":
Durgin's books were displayed in
wooden orange crates, then
commonly used as bookcases.
See annotation 19 [24] 

http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/kerkhoff/beatgeneration/index.htm