On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Robert Sheppard wrote:
that wasn't
> MacSweeney reading his work.
- weird: who was it? I didn't hear it, but what a waste, since BM seems in
such good voice at present.
The only cultural cooridnate availbale for
> Michael Rosen::: Ginsberg
- perhaps not so innapropriate in the case of The Book Of Demons where
there is a certain amount of early-Ginsberg-esque rant. I guess that's
kind of praise, I like a good Howl as much as anyone, but I can't help
feeling it's a bit too close to literary/cultural genre, unlike most of
BM's other work, which finds its own way blow-by-singular-blow. If I'm
right in this (and I look forward to being corrected) it's typical that
the Poetry Book Society should reccommend this genre title, having
studiously ignored the previous c.30yrs work.
BOD does at least reprint Pearl, which I'll enthuse on separately if
anyone wants...
RC
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