Over at Arthur, Thurston Moore and Bryan Coley discuss (among other things) poetry. Whatever generation it is now of the St. Marks Poetry Project New York School is beyond us, we stopped counting as soon as we saw Anselm Berrigan running the joint, remembering him as a kid banging around the folding chairs at the Project really not that long ago. Time flies in real time and in poet time and the last decade of young poets around that scene […]
Andre William Finally Writes “The Book”
I’m going out on a limb having never read the debut novel by 73 year old Andre Williams, but I’m guessing Sweets & Other Stories (Kicks Books) will be well worth your time for the following reasons. 1. From all I know about Mr. Williams, the guy has seen things that you probably could not imagine. 2. Nick Tosches writer the forward. Nick Tosches is an incredibly bad motherfucker. 3. They are having a party for the book at St. […]