I've just heard that Ric died this morning at 11.45 a.m.
A wonderful writer and a lovely man.
Randolph
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From: "Rebecca Seiferle" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: hex renditions and poetry
> Hi Doug,
>
> No, I don't recall hearing the Simone version back then that much either.
I was probably listening to other things. But I think Jill said that she had
the Animals version and Arni said he had heard the Alan Price, the lead
singer of the Animals, version, so perhaps that was the psychedelic version,
which seems more likely than CCR, and which may have well had that same
screaming quality of Screamin' Jack Hawkins, since that was a characteristic
of the Animals, though I can't seem to bring to mind their rendition of "I
put a spell on you," not this morning anyway. Though, of course, as Jill and
Arni noted there have been many other versions.
>
> Well, I wonder if there is some significance in this. Several failed
attempts to start a thread on poetry among the many dark threads of war, and
we end up going on and on about music like the sixties. How funny. Perhaps
all this requires some sense of poetry that is much closer to lyric, to
music, and singing. I guess one consideration would be how these events will
alter poetry. I would think probably toward compression and music. Though I
imagine there would be counter pressures, a perhaps different sort of
polarity. For instance, perhaps a more populist or didactic poetry? like the
Dario poem that Kent posted or lamentably, the way in which the most popular
poet of the sixties was Rod McKuen, though there are . And on the other
hand, perhaps a more obdurate verse. More lyric. But then that seems like a
plea and an admonition, at the same time.
>
> More lyric,
>
> Rebecca
>
> Rebecca Seiferle
> www.thedrunkenboat.com
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 04/01/03 07:49 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: hex renditions
>
> >
> > Hi Rebecca
>
> I see so many further notes on this I may never get to read them all, but:
>
> yes, the psychedelic version may bb the CCR one, but I also had in my mind
> the Hawkins one with that scream, so I don't know. I agree about the NIna
> one being more seductive, but cool. I didn't hear it that much back then
> though, as I recall (which I probably don't).
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> I fear this war
> will be long and painful
> and who
> pursue
> it
> Lorine Niedecker
> >
>
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