Great recommendations. I’ve read just one of the three. I’d be very interested in your review of Desolate Angels. With the exception of On the Road and Big Sur, which are riveting and beautiful, tender and tawdry, I sometimes do the nodding thing. Tell me if I should read it. I sometimes think when the focus is free association and sounds, you need music to go along with it—the way Dylan took Jack into the mainstream of America on the wings of the radio as poet in chief. Ivan should be required reading. It only takes an hour. I have a poem about Ivan at my Substack shack Shakespeare’s Monkey: The Dying of the Light. The other title sounds interesting, too. Nice work.
Great recommendations. I’ve read just one of the three. I’d be very interested in your review of Desolate Angels. With the exception of On the Road and Big Sur, which are riveting and beautiful, tender and tawdry, I sometimes do the nodding thing. Tell me if I should read it. I sometimes think when the focus is free association and sounds, you need music to go along with it—the way Dylan took Jack into the mainstream of America on the wings of the radio as poet in chief. Ivan should be required reading. It only takes an hour. I have a poem about Ivan at my Substack shack Shakespeare’s Monkey: The Dying of the Light. The other title sounds interesting, too. Nice work.