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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