>Incidentally, as a term applied to "Dmitri", 'Goth' is anachronistic --
"Dmitri" postdates mods and rockers, but predates the Goth style
statement.<
I know, me ducks, I like to play twists with time.
2009/6/6 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
> (God, I'm tempted to post "A Sixties Sort Of Scene" -- sheesh, you want
>> Dowson squared? -- that was Cynera with Janis J chucked in.
>>
>
> One odd thing about "A Sixties Sort Of Scene" was that John Lucas took one
> look at it and said, "Robin, do you really *want to be busted out of
> academe?"
>
> Baffled the hell out of me -- I'd thought I'd published much edgier poems
> in _The Lost Jockey_ ("An Allegory of Teaching and Learning" and "The Alexis
> Poems" spring to mind) ...
>
> ... not to speak of one I published in Poetry (Chicago) ...
>
> Then it struck me, that basically, nobody actually *read my poems.
>
> As well for me -- talk about the luck of the Hamiltons.
>
> <g>
>
> Incidentally, as a term applied to "Dmitri", 'Goth' is anachronistic --
> "Dmitri" postdates mods and rockers, but predates the Goth style statement.
>
> Robin
>
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