tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post1098604691925108627..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: My Favorite PARIS REVIEW cover - #38, Summer 1966Curtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-7137406070757556992013-12-01T09:39:41.193-08:002013-12-01T09:39:41.193-08:00I know nothing about Lou Reed.
I lost track of po...I know nothing about Lou Reed.<br /><br />I lost track of popular rock music sometime in the late 1970's. <br /><br />I tended not to appreciate the "grunge" balladeers"--was Reed one of these?<br /><br />I don't know.<br /><br />When Tom Clark was fired, the avant garde poetry ceased to appear in PR. From what I heard, the rumor was that the conservative Eastern Establishment forced Plimpton to change policy. Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-14633576575764872672013-12-01T08:57:27.940-08:002013-12-01T08:57:27.940-08:00Lou Reed used to publish good poems in there. Ther...Lou Reed used to publish good poems in there. There is a poem about Lou Reed's death in the Nov. 24 New Yorker. I didn't like it at all. I have no idea what to think about an amoral beast like Lou Reed, or the whole barbarian horde of the East Village. Buncha creeps. Plimpton struck me as a creep, too. Even affected an accent of some kind. I prefer William F. Buckley.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.com