| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 24989 |
| QUOTATION: | What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night!
Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the
tomatoes!—and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by
the watermelons? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. A Supermarket in California (l. 3). . .
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947–1980 (1984) Harper and Row. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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