[New-Poetry] John Giorno review

[Anny Ballardini]

Also your Ursula Andress's ones, :-)

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:58 PM, James Cervantes
<cervantes.james at gmail.com>wrote:

> You do have your Burt Reynolds moments.
> - Jim
>
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 1936--also the birth year of Halvard Johnson, David Zinman (who last night
>> conducted
>> the New York Philharmonic), Eva Hess (for whom Hal's wife Lynda worked at
>> one time),
>> Alan Alda (son of the famous Robert Alda, who once played George Gershwin
>> in a film),
>> Ursula Andress (who was a 10), Dennis Hopper, Robert Redford (nuff said on
>> those two),
>> and . . . oh, yes . . . Burt Reynolds, John McCain, and Steve Reich.
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> "My experience is what I agree to attend to."
>>           --William James
>>
>> Halvard Johnson
>> ================
>> halvard at gmail.com
>> http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home
>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
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>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:32 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> http://gcadvocate.org/index.php/view/00444/Reality-is-very-haunting.htm
>>>
>>> John Giorno is the most important poet you’ve never heard of. Elaine
>>> Showalter calls him the father of performance poetry, though Cristin O’Keefe
>>> Aptowicz’s definitive history of slam mentions him not at all, save Dan
>>> Nester listing him as an influence in his Introduction. The American Academy
>>> of Poets has a single poem by Giorno in their archive, though the Poetry
>>> Foundation has no listing for him at all. Giorno was born in 1936, the same
>>> year as June Jordan, C.K. Williams, and two years after Amiri Baraka and
>>> Audre Lorde–but his name is absent from the poetry anthologies that include
>>> them.
>>> (excerpt)
>>>
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