Hey Andrew at least the best Beats wrote real poetry, so you neednt apologize for liking them...; ddint we all?
Doug
On 2012-12-19, at 4:50 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I agree. As a character, Buk is a 'fun' image of the wildman poet, but he
> was such a bastard to women incl his wife, and such a repetitive and crap
> poet that I can't see any literary attraction. To the moodswinging
> drug-enthusiasts in their twenties, I can see the attraction - like I had
> for all things Beat back then in my earliest days (late teens, early
> twenties) ... Oh, well, even the editors of that magazaine are young Greek
> guys, in the main, with fun as their flag but a serius purpose beneath.
> Keeping that mag going is my interest in it - it comes out of the West but
> needs the East's subscriptions and backing to stay alive.
>
> Cheers -
>
>
> Andrew
> PS: Send 'em a poem ... They need the quality.
>
> On 20 December 2012 03:26, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Well, I like on of the Bs, but could never understand peoples' interest in
>> the other...
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>> Doug
>> On 2012-12-19, at 3:46 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Take a look! Let your lowlife win you high praise - and a cash prize.
>>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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>>> Andrew
>>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>>> 'Undercover of Lightness'
>>> http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
>>> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
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>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> Latest books:
>> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
>> Wednesdays'
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>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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>> Swept snow, Li Po,
>> by dawn’s 40-watt moon
>> to the road that hies to office
>> away from home.
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> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> 'Undercover of Lightness'
> http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
>
Douglas Barbour
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Latest books:
Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
Wednesdays'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
Swept snow, Li Po,
by dawn’s 40-watt moon
to the road that hies to office
away from home.
Lorine Niedecker
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