![]() Not that beauty meant smiling myopic ignorance our poets met dark times with dark works as well as light ones. With that prescience which artists often display, Ochs could as easily have been speaking to us today as to those LBJ-era protestors who were making Vietnam the political issue of their time.Īnd following Ochs’ lead, Rat’s Ass Review spent the first 100 days of the Trump presidency accumulating beauty and speaking artistic truth to ugliness. So wrote Phil Ochs in the liner notes on his 1967 album Pleasures of the Harbor. you must protest you must protestĪh but in such an ugly time the true protest is beauty” ![]()
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