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August 20, 2001, “Creating a Social and Historical Context for Dylan’s Christian Period” presented at the Mizel Center, Denver
CREATING A SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR DYLAN’S “CHRISTIAN PERIOD” I want to talk about the Christian period in Dylan’s life, but first, in order to really understand it, we’re going to have to backtrack a little bit and put it in a social and historical context. For the weight it sometimes carries, it’s important… Continue Reading »
Over Large Stars Collaborations with Katie Bowler
October 1999-April 2000 May 2001 Cover design by Mikell Yamada Continue Reading »
February 8, 2001 Review of Joe Fante’s “1933”
Every year, on January 17th, I celebrate my birthday. Looking back, it’s difficult to know whether I’ve gained a year of experience, or lost a year. I guess it depends on how you look at it—is it sand in an hourglass running out, or is my life something that evolves toward a possible future I… Continue Reading »
Melanchology: Collected Poems and Prose 2000
76 pages January 17, 2001 47 copies Given away for free to friends and others on the poet’s 47th birthday Continue Reading »
July 21, 2000 “Randy Goes to a Rave at the Rocks”
The first surprise was that the audience was mostly shorthaired college kids–short hair not in a skinhead kind of way or in a fashionably unfashionable kind of way, but in a “I’m majoring in business” kind of way–not the longhaired misfits I expected. I didn’t see a single tie-dye all night–but those bizarre light… Continue Reading »
Interview with Jane Siberry on “Hush,” June 28, 2000
Note: The first couple of minutes of this interview were lost due to engineer error (me). Randy Roark: There’s lullaby-ish qualities to the songs themselves as a whole, as a unit, as a CD. Jane Siberry: So there’s that too. That’s actually more of what I should probably say. You’re my first interview, Randy, so… Continue Reading »
April 18, 2000, Review of “Deliberate Prose” by Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995 Edited by Bill Morgan Foreward by Edward Sanders $30.00 Harper Collins ISBN: 0-06-019294-1 It took me almost a month to do what I knew I had to do when I first received a review copy of Allen Ginsberg’s Deliberate Prose—to go into my files and go through a… Continue Reading »
February 18, 2000, Review of “The Stranger” by Satyajit Ray
18 February 2000, 4:30 a.m. Dear Andrew: Thanks for loaning me “The Stranger.” There’s a lot to like about this film, but it’s also not surprising that my film encyclopedias have almost nothing to say about it and only give it 2 1/2 stars (approximately a C+). For someone like me who’s only seen… Continue Reading »
February 5, 2000, Review of “Reside” by Patrick Pritchett
Review of Reside Author: Patrick Pritchett Dead Metaphor Press PO Box 2076 Boulder, Colorado 80306 40 pages staplebound, paper 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 $5.00 ISBN: 1-880743-14-0 There is nothing really new in the concept of the poem, or the text, as something that only really happens on the page, somehow removed, as Wittgenstein suggested,… Continue Reading »
December 8, 1999, Review of “Screaming for Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg” by Caveney Graham
Review of Screaming with Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg Author: Caveney Graham Broadway Books Special Markets Department Random House, Inc. 1540 Broadway New York, NY 10036 216 pages; bibliography, index hardcover 7 1/2 x 8 1/2 Price: unknown ISBN: 0-7679-0278-5 Reportedly, one of Allen’s final instructions to Bob Rosenthal, his literary executor and long-time… Continue Reading »