FYI -- LL has never submitted to anything I was editing. My me, oh Lord?
But I did meet her once, after a reading in Silver Spring, Md., at which she
preceded Henry Taylor and Stanley Plumly, who were visibly disconcerted.
She was a hard act to follow, very hard.
Hal
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collection --
http://www.scribd.com/people/documents/14481250-chalk-editions
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On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Yes. I have one of her 800 books, Ken, but she sure does seem to have
> appeared in every magazine that ever appeared during her lifetime....
>
> Wicked funny.
>
> Doug
>
> On 5-Mar-10, at 8:11 AM, Ken Wolman wrote:
>
> Ken Wolman wrote:
>>
>>> CHASING LYNN
>>>
>>> I wish I could run like a new breed,
>>> the Lynn Lifshin Greyhound.
>>> Maybe I could catch her. I doubt it.
>>> I've been chasing her for 20 years.
>>> I'd like to be in one publication
>>> before she gets there. Fat chance.
>>>
>>> If they ever issue a Collected Lifshin
>>> it will make the collected Frank O'Hara
>>> look like a thin-paper pocket New Testament.
>>> Lynn is the not-so-mechanical lure
>>> who for 20 years kept me chasing her
>>>
>>> not for personal conquest but to leave her
>>> in my dust, in my ego-driven quest for
>>> some sort of loony personal glory.
>>> I suppose I try to vanquish time.
>>> But we know it's not going to happen. So at last
>>> I've quit running, Lynn. I don't care anymore.
>>>
>>> When I lose the final race the track owners,
>>> if they don't shoot me, will adopt me out
>>> to some nice family of greeting card writers
>>> who will take me on walks on the beach, and
>>> let me lay my snout on the couch
>>> watching Oprah.
>>>
>>> KTW/3-5-10
>>>
>>>
>> Oh. I spelled "Lyn" wrong. Mea culpa.
>>
>> kw
>>
>> --
>> ----------------------------
>> Ken Wolman
>>
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>> http://opensalon.com/blog/kenneth_wolman
>> http://wearethecure.org/friends/cids-memory-p-394.html
>>
>>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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> It is ink
> on paper love
>
> Frank O'Hara
>
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