Bouvre Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/obituaries/tony-hoagland-dead.html Tony Hoagland is a great, wonderful writer who moved simply but expertly and efficiently through language. Here is one of my favorite poems by him: Fred Had Watched A Lot Of Kung Fu Episodes so when the policeman asked to see his driver's license, he said, Does the wind need permission . from the hedgehog to blow? which resulted in a search of the car, which miraculously yielded nothing . since Fred had swallowed all the mescaline already and was just beginning to fall in love with the bushy caterpillar eyebrows of the officer in question. . In those days we could identify the fingerprints on a guitar string by the third note of the song broadcast from the window of a passing car, . but we couldn't tell the difference between a personal disaster and "having an experience," . so Fred thought being locked up for the night was kind of fun, with the graffiti on the drunk-tank wall chattering in Mandarin and the sentient cockroaches coming out to visit in triplicate. . Back then it wasn't a question of pleasure or pain, It wasn't a question of getting to the top then trying not to fall at any cost. . It was a question of staying tuned in, one episode at a time, said Fred to himself as he walked home the next morning under the spreading lotus trees on Walnut Street, feeling Oriental. Thanks for everything Tony 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KH868 Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 If he didn't have poems about marginalizing minorities or eating ass was he truly alive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouvre Posted October 28, 2018 Author Share Posted October 28, 2018 (edited) On 10/27/2018 at 8:07 AM, KH868 said: If he didn't have poems about marginalizing minorities or eating ass was he truly alive. http://ithicks.blogspot.com/2008/01/change-by-tony-hoagland.html?m=1 This one was a hot debate for a good minute when it arrived on the scene in 2003 Still considered a gleaming example of his racism by many Edited October 28, 2018 by Bouvre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KH868 Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 18 hours ago, Bouvre said: http://ithicks.blogspot.com/2008/01/change-by-tony-hoagland.html?m=1 This one was a hot debate for a good minute when it arrived on the scene in 2003 Still considered a gleaming example of his racism by many what a guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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