Don't think she lived in Silver Spring, though she read
there at least once. I think she's lived in upstate NY
for many years.
Hal
follow this link to The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye, my latest
collection --
http://www.scribd.com/people/documents/14481250-chalk-editions
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Thanks for your descriptions. I studiously avoided her public appearances
> while she was
> apparently living in Silver Spring MD, assuming LL was as boring in person
> as her
> publishing strategy was in the mail. Perhaps I should have sampled her
> act, at least for
> possible later critical use as an example of somewhat theatrical
> self-presentation. Could
> it be termed performative or conceptual?
>
> If I remember correctly, she submitted completely off-topic poems to my
> literary/critical
> magazine VORT. I didn't respond, and perhaps appropriately, her manuscript
> was later
> destroyed by an arsonist's molotov cocktail.
>
> Barry
>
>
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:34:08 -0500, Gerald Schwartz <[log in to unmask]
> >
> wrote:
>
> >Yes, all that and then some!
> >
> >Gerald S.
> >
> >> Very dramatic! Plus boots and mini-skirt.
> >>
> >> Hal
>
>
> >> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Barry Alpert
> >> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hal,
> >>>
> >>> I've never heard or read a description of her public reading style.
> >>> Could
> >>> you provide one?
> >>>
> >>> Barry
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:37:26 -0600, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> >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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