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may i give you guys a link to my story about meeting lou reed in genoa? http://www.poetrykit.org/pkmag/pkmag4/031.htm plus photo ----Original Message Follows---- From: Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Lou Reed (was RE: Musical tastes, Calla (Re: Stones V. Beatles )) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:08:35 -0400 Wojhan's sequence of poems about rock & blues, _Mystery Train_ is well worth taking a look at. It's in a book b y the same name. jd On 3/20/07, Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >Another Jedi Mind Trick on me, via Roger. The Velvet Underground >encompasses the late Sixties/early Seventies for me--decadence, a smelly >brilliance. Lou Reed at least survived his excesses. At the very least, >the album "New York" is a treasure. Of what? You tell me. And of course >HIS version of "Take a Walk on the Wild Side" made Jim Stafford's cover >truly pathetic. But that's AM radio for ya: you can't talk about giving >head on the radio when the impressionable teenagers are >listening. Ha. On >the first VU album Reed performed "Heroin," perhaps the holy of holies if >you like horror songs, and let's just say it's more than borderline >accurate >in terms of words and their connection to the music. Reed has a face like >10 miles of bad road now, and he traveled every inch of it to get that >way. > >There's a wonderful poem by David Wojahn, a monologue on the subway by >Reed >back in 1966, returning from Delmore Schwartz's viewing. That's how I >learned Reed was Schwartz's student at Syracuse University. Small wonder >one of them survived. > >Ken >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.13/725 - Release Date: 3/17/2007 >12:33 PM > -- Joseph Duemer Professor of Humanities Clarkson University [sharpsand.net] _________________________________________________________________ Join the millions of Australians using Live Search. Try live.com.au http://ninemsn.com.au/share/redir/adTrack.asp?mode=click&clientID=740&referral=million&URL=http://live.com.au