11-10-2023, 08:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-16-2023, 09:14 PM by TranquillityBase.)
I liked the d a levy poem. Seemed to stand the test of time; felt original to me here in 2023. It got me to dig into the Outlaw Bible. There is a collection of levy's work in print I'm tempted to get since he was doing concrete poetry too, back in the day, and I've a fondness for that too. It's kind of expensive, but not unreasonably so.
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https://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/dalevy/dalevy.htm
I found this website and have been reading more d a levy. I really like his long poems. Am right now reading "Suburban Monastery Death Poem" which seems to be the only one of his long poems presented in its entirety. I missed the sixites because I was born about 5 years too late, but this poem is what I've always been looking for, a poem that makes me feel like I'm living in that time, even if it is in Cleveland, probably like being in Houston in the 60s, it's immature I know to want to live in a past time, especially one as deluded as the 60s, but fuck it, that's Me.
I also ordered the printed collection of his work and am hoping it contains the whole of his long poems.
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I can't seem to bring myself to read the last pages of the Che biography, to read again the horror story of his capture and execution, even though he was a blood-soaked Quixote who thought, like Marx, Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot & company, that he'd found the magic formula to trigger world-wide Revolution.
There's a funny bit, during his years in Cuba, when Russians replaced the American tourist as the principal foreigner visiting Cuba. The Cubans didn't like them, because they smelled bad and didn't use deodorant. It was such a problem that Che mentioned it in one of his televised speeches, explaining that the new "revolutionary man" might have to do without deodorant until Imperialism/Captialism was crushed.
Still reading the Outlaw Bible in my spare moments. Miles to go. So far, the next poet who I found to be as interesting as d a levy is Bob Kaufman.
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https://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/dalevy/dalevy.htm
I found this website and have been reading more d a levy. I really like his long poems. Am right now reading "Suburban Monastery Death Poem" which seems to be the only one of his long poems presented in its entirety. I missed the sixites because I was born about 5 years too late, but this poem is what I've always been looking for, a poem that makes me feel like I'm living in that time, even if it is in Cleveland, probably like being in Houston in the 60s, it's immature I know to want to live in a past time, especially one as deluded as the 60s, but fuck it, that's Me.
I also ordered the printed collection of his work and am hoping it contains the whole of his long poems.
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I can't seem to bring myself to read the last pages of the Che biography, to read again the horror story of his capture and execution, even though he was a blood-soaked Quixote who thought, like Marx, Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot & company, that he'd found the magic formula to trigger world-wide Revolution.
There's a funny bit, during his years in Cuba, when Russians replaced the American tourist as the principal foreigner visiting Cuba. The Cubans didn't like them, because they smelled bad and didn't use deodorant. It was such a problem that Che mentioned it in one of his televised speeches, explaining that the new "revolutionary man" might have to do without deodorant until Imperialism/Captialism was crushed.
Still reading the Outlaw Bible in my spare moments. Miles to go. So far, the next poet who I found to be as interesting as d a levy is Bob Kaufman.