may i give you guys a link to my story about meeting lou reed in genoa?
http://www.poetrykit.org/pkmag/pkmag4/031.htm
plus photo
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From: Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Lou Reed (was RE: Musical tastes, Calla (Re: Stones V. Beatles
))
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:08:35 -0400
Wojhan's sequence of poems about rock & blues, _Mystery Train_ is well worth
taking a look at. It's in a book b y the same name.
jd
On 3/20/07, Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>Another Jedi Mind Trick on me, via Roger. The Velvet Underground
>encompasses the late Sixties/early Seventies for me--decadence, a smelly
>brilliance. Lou Reed at least survived his excesses. At the very least,
>the album "New York" is a treasure. Of what? You tell me. And of course
>HIS version of "Take a Walk on the Wild Side" made Jim Stafford's cover
>truly pathetic. But that's AM radio for ya: you can't talk about giving
>head on the radio when the impressionable teenagers are
>listening. Ha. On
>the first VU album Reed performed "Heroin," perhaps the holy of holies if
>you like horror songs, and let's just say it's more than borderline
>accurate
>in terms of words and their connection to the music. Reed has a face like
>10 miles of bad road now, and he traveled every inch of it to get that
>way.
>
>There's a wonderful poem by David Wojahn, a monologue on the subway by
>Reed
>back in 1966, returning from Delmore Schwartz's viewing. That's how I
>learned Reed was Schwartz's student at Syracuse University. Small wonder
>one of them survived.
>
>Ken
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Joseph Duemer
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Clarkson University
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