Sorry, Max. I did not name the poets I was talking about because I wanted to
emphasis of my post to be on the ideas that had come to me about poetry
readings more than the individual poets involved. I wasn't trying to make
any sort of an "in" reference.
Richard
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on 7/3/05 12:52 AM, Richard Jeffrey Newman at [log in to unmask]
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> like stand-up
> comedy--and tired, shallow 1950s, Jewish, psychoanalytically influenced,
> stand-up shtick at that--than poetry, and yet he reads well in that vein
and
> people really like his work.
No doubt several on this list know immediately who this poet is, and it is
tantalising for me not to know. I suppose I'm so ill-read or so forgetful I
don't deserve to know.
Max Richards
I've been enjoying all the messages on this subject.
Coincidentally, my son is briefly here from Byron Bay NSW, bringing a
compilation CD he made for my Christmas present but never got round to
delivering. On it (from a 3CD album called I think The Beat Generation)
I am now listening to bits of Kerouac, Burroughs (heroin relaxes the vocal
chords, says my son), Ginsberg, none of them great to listen to but great
historical curiosities now. And 27 seconds of Carl Sandburg 'On Beatniks',
saying he was one round 1910...
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