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> Don't think she lived in Silver Spring, though she read
> there at least once. I think she's lived in upstate NY
> for many years.
>
> Hal
>
> follow this link to The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye, my latest
> collection --
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> Halvard Johnson
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> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Barry Alpert 
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>> 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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