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Bob Dylan Called This Kind of Thing a “Truth Attack”
We live, of course, in a nation addicted to lies. (Hence, Julian Assange is a “terrorist”, Obama a “Socialist”, etc.) Doubtless Bill Knott will be dumped on for this—and he does seem to confuse City Lights publications with New Directions, unless I misread his postscript—but the core of his post is (it seems to me) undeniable. How refreshing to know that someone has the courage to say so. In the midst of his attack, Knott notes that he continues to read Ferlinghetti “with admiration” and (presumably) Prévert, whose work I quoted here not long ago.Read More
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Friday Notebook 07.15.2011
Another scanty week for the old notebook. Just a few traces… “This is a world with a new order of disease.” —Linda Hogan, The Woman Who Watches Over the World * The Meteor Between the bars of a reformatory cellan orangecame flying in a flash and fellplop like a stoneinto the johnAnd gazing at itthe prisoner shoneall splattered with shitin a blaze of ecstasyShe hasn’t forgottenShe still thinks of me. —Jacques Prévert, tr. Norman R.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
