Ben Burdick from the LPL introduces Kenneth Warren. Ken is an accomplished poet
and author in his own right, and was an integral member of the beat poetry and outlaw
poetry movement. Ken also knew D. A. Levy.
Ken reads from Richard Blevins' poem for D. A. Levy, "Medieval Ohio."
A nice group got together for this lecture and discussion afterwards.
After the program, Ken Warren joking with James Crawford the current director of the
Lakewood Public Library. That's Suzanne DeGaetano, of accomplished poet in her own
right, from Macksbacks books on Conventry packing up some of the books she brought
about D. A. Levy.
Kenneth Warren's new book, "Captain Poetry's Sucker Punch: A Guide To The Homeric
Punkhole, 1980–2012. A provocative look at poetry and poets of the era, due out this summer.
CLEVELAND: THE RECTAL EYE VISIONS
by d.a.levy
PUTTING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE A LITTLE This is the world! Greetings! It is the same place seeing child- ren do "cute" things like pissing on a car in the Goldblatts' park- ing lot trying to catch robins after they've just learned to walk, they fall on their nose & bounce back up like a weighted punching bag--it is the same place the same children all martyrs at the H-Bomb stake, their innocent brains turning into bar-b-que, their screams splitting our skulls like hatchets. Yes, I'm writing this in a puddle of sun out in the land of crew- cut lawns where tv antennas grow taller than trees & the people landscape their minds with recipes for potato salad & tips on how to golf. I'm right in the cyclops eye of the Enemy Camp. That's why I know what d.a. levy is talking about in CLEVELAND : THE RECTAL EYE VISIONS- if you live in the city you know, but if you live in the suburbs you get the full treatment, the residue the re- fined, distilled quintessence of Rectalplasm, of Shitomania, of Devoidarama, Here I get a perfect view of the sun, the children, the Bomb & the people who have cultivated the Bomb.
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http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/dalevy/levy-re1.htm
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