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I never met Lyn in Silverspring, but read with a Palestinian poet there. I can't remember the featured reader? Have her chapbook around somewhere. Where was your reading, Hal? Deborah Russell Rehoboth Beach, Delaware > Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:37:26 -0600 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: About Lynn Lifshin > To: [log in to unmask] > > 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 > > follow this link to The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye, my latest > collection -- > > http://www.scribd.com/people/documents/14481250-chalk-editions > > Halvard Johnson > ================ > [log in to unmask] > http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > http://www.hamiltonstone.org > > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > > > Yes. I have one of her 800 books, Ken, but she sure does seem to have > > appeared in every magazine that ever appeared during her lifetime.... > > > > Wicked funny. > > > > Doug > > > > On 5-Mar-10, at 8:11 AM, Ken Wolman wrote: > > > > Ken Wolman wrote: > >> > >>> CHASING LYNN > >>> > >>> I wish I could run like a new breed, > >>> the Lynn Lifshin Greyhound. > >>> Maybe I could catch her. I doubt it. > >>> I've been chasing her for 20 years. > >>> I'd like to be in one publication > >>> before she gets there. Fat chance. > >>> > >>> If they ever issue a Collected Lifshin > >>> it will make the collected Frank O'Hara > >>> look like a thin-paper pocket New Testament. > >>> Lynn is the not-so-mechanical lure > >>> who for 20 years kept me chasing her > >>> > >>> not for personal conquest but to leave her > >>> in my dust, in my ego-driven quest for > >>> some sort of loony personal glory. > >>> I suppose I try to vanquish time. > >>> But we know it's not going to happen. So at last > >>> I've quit running, Lynn. I don't care anymore. > >>> > >>> When I lose the final race the track owners, > >>> if they don't shoot me, will adopt me out > >>> to some nice family of greeting card writers > >>> who will take me on walks on the beach, and > >>> let me lay my snout on the couch > >>> watching Oprah. > >>> > >>> KTW/3-5-10 > >>> > >>> > >> Oh. I spelled "Lyn" wrong. Mea culpa. > >> > >> kw > >> > >> -- > >> ---------------------------- > >> Ken Wolman > >> > >> http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com > >> http://opensalon.com/blog/kenneth_wolman > >> http://wearethecure.org/friends/cids-memory-p-394.html > >> > >> > > Douglas Barbour > > [log in to unmask] > > > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/> > > > > Latest books: > > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > > Wednesdays' > > > > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > > > > It is ink > > on paper love > > > > Frank O'Hara > > _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/