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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