Great story, Stephen.
I'm sorry I wasn't around then; later I missed him too, but it didn't
mean as much later. I take your point, though, for sure....
Doug
On 26-Apr-06, at 12:29 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Boy, did that wake up the mutants and put some electricity and humor
> in the
> air. Allen was some like that. He got the Committee meeting going -
> poetry
> was suddenly able to jump over so many academic fences, American poets
> and
> poetry could suddenly fully breathe, weep, be angry, feel and look at a
> larger world again. For me, Kaddish and Howl and the Kansas __ Sutra
> were
> his great poems/books. Much of the rest is not that interesting.
> Ironically
> his snap shots from the rest of his life are often wonderful and
> somehow
> beat what became most snap shot poetry.
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