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Part One: Up Against the Wall: New York City's Armed Love Movement

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The Black Mass People Throw Blanks at Them and Run Out Into the Night

The book is like, that's not what the Wikipedia page says, but I think that was written by someone who really likes Ken Koch. The version on his Wikipedia page that's referenced again in this book is that Alan did not faint, looked at them and said, oh, grow up. Either way, they simulate assassinate this poet. They were polarizing for some strange reason. It's hard for me to imagine exactly why. Their actions and words drew lots of new supporters and their ideas behind total revolution were infectious.

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