Auden's poetry collapsed into faggy folksy pointlessness. The poems were charming but why bother? Allen Ginsberg wrote a homage to this particular vein of...
Auden and Ginsberg do not owe their rise to Homintern, as Auden called a shadowy international homosexual conspiracy. Dan and Denise embody Christian...
When a contributor to Unmuzzled OX dies, I feel obliged to note it publicly. The conceptual artist Sol LeWitt was a sweetheart. Indeed, there's a circle of...
LIVE MAG! #2 INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE at a publication party with Brenda Iijima of yoyolabs John Reed of The Brooklyn Rail and Matvei Yankelevich of Ugly...
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Morning Jeff. Would love to join you on the 22 but we will be flying home from North Carolina that evening. Hope to see you on the 23. Marsh Hawk Press...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Cole Swensen and The Glass Age 3 focused anthologies â€" For the Time-Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic...
Hi, Andre, here's the poem by Bukowski. "On Creeley", Buffalo Stamps n 2, 1971. Uncollected as of yet. Enjoy it! "on Creeley:" everybody is always telling me ...
In 1971 Robert Creeley was my favorite writer. I thought Creeley would eventually be considered as great a writer as W.H. Auden or Samuel Beckett. I...
Thanks, John. Did you check out any of the other posts? Are you a member? Boy, it didn't take long for the knives to come out. m ... From: John Roche...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS The Permanent Avant: Tony Trehy and cognitive poetics The Permanent Avant: contexts for Spencer Selby (Twist of...
Abel Debritto a.k.a. Cirereta is a Spanish scholar half-way through a Bukowski bibliography. He told me, for instance, of combative reviews of Bukowski by...
I discovered Bukowski at Brown largely because I loved the Black Sparrow Press books. And thought, cheezus, these are beautiful. So I bought WOMEN and was...
The Bukowski poem which seemed to cite a letter from me appeared in some little magazine in the middle to late seventies. Its gist: "So Robert Creeley dislikes...
In the late '70s Ellen Kahaner recruited a number of Columbia MFAs to work on Unmuzzled OX. One was Valerie Sayers, now a widely-honored novelist. Another I...
So how do you celebrate a thing like that? Would make a good movie. Brad Pitt rescues his ex-wife with the resources of his current wife. How are we looking...
The girl who for a time was imprisoned in a Mexican brothel came to mind perhaps because she worked on the Bukowski material. I remembered her, ironically, on...
Edward Field's THE MAN WHO WOULD MARRY SUSAN SONTAG and Other Intimate Portraits of the Bohemian Era recalls the gay lit scene of 20 years ago. I kept waiting...
While you're in that vein, Michael, have you read Alice Denham's *Sleeping with Bad Boys* yet? You might find that "refreshing." It's even blurbed by David...
Was this the Alice who was once Playboy's playmate of the month? And does she live near Westbeth? Hannah Green and Jack Wesley introduced us, we four drank too...
We know the same Alice. I once induced Playboy to have one of their models pose for Unmuzzled OX. A Chicago poet and photographer clicked the photo. He...
Well, once, not sometimes. Hal "Those who cast the ballots decide nothing. Those who count the ballots decide everything." --Joseph Stalin Halvard Johnson ...
Alice had a friend who at one time wrote pornography for Maurice Girodias' Olympia Press. I read a later commercial novel called After Claude. In the...
Historians have concluded George Bush is worse than James Buchanan, and thus the worst American president. Humanity now ponders the question -- who's the worst...
After Claude was written by Iris Owens. She lived on Cornelia Street. MGS mandreox <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Alice had a friend who at one time wrote...
Please come to a poetry reading at St. Mark's Church Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and David Vogen Monday, May 28 at 8pm The Poetry Project St. Mark's Church, 131...
You use the past tense; -- is Iris still alive? I met Alice Denham and Iris Owens in the late '70s. They're a bit older than me. I remain both impressed and...
The last time I saw Iris was at the artist Myron Stout's studio/home in Provincetown in the early 1970s. At that time, Farrar Strauss had republished After...
