tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post2295907377851000126..comments2023-12-05T03:34:14.680-05:00Comments on <b>Issa's Untidy Hut</b>: Lenore Kandel: Reading/Book LaunchIssa's Untidy Huthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-36627053113772129742012-05-06T10:51:32.000-04:002012-05-06T10:51:32.000-04:00Ed:
I feel exactly the same way ... though how re...Ed:<br /><br />I feel exactly the same way ... though how relatively hard it was for years to get her work takes a little of the blame from your shoulders.<br /><br />I think the intro you speak may be the finest manifesto to come out of the Beat period, period. I'll be putting up the review a little later this morning. Long though it is, I'm afraid I didn't capture how truly magical her work is.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-15662351321191015412012-05-06T10:49:40.645-04:002012-05-06T10:49:40.645-04:00Pass the word, Charles.Pass the word, Charles.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-15236941968739449642012-05-06T09:05:47.834-04:002012-05-06T09:05:47.834-04:00pee est:
is her intro to WORD ALCHEMY
all-so in...pee est:<br /><br />is her intro to WORD ALCHEMY <br />all-so included ?<br /><br />all of the present Lang Gang Academic "poet-Teachers<br />and their students ought to memorize this intro ..<br /><br />I got tears in my eyes<br />& sudden shiverings<br />in my body<br />that I am just now<br /><br />in my Old SAge<br /><br />discovering her work<br />(& other things) <br />thaT I detoured around.<br /><br />also<br /><br />just came across <br />& ordered a copy<br />of<br /><br />Peter Coyote's<br /> Sleeping Where I Fall<br /><br />- from the excerpts <br />via "view inside this book"<br /><br />Coyote<br />puts things <br /><br />(as Lenore Kandel et all<br />her Digger friends<br />so did<br /><br />/ pu things into that<br /><br />"just what is (was)" attitude<br /><br />-for those who dig it !Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-44673727768274894752012-05-01T16:36:35.773-04:002012-05-01T16:36:35.773-04:00I'll have to tell a few friends in that area.I'll have to tell a few friends in that area.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-82699409118715725582012-04-30T12:11:01.172-04:002012-04-30T12:11:01.172-04:00Ed,
The book is really great - has The Love Book...Ed, <br /><br />The book is really great - has The Love Book and all of Word Alchemy and a ton of early and later stuff. Amazing stuff - I'm working up a review I hope will do it and her justice. <br /><br />I know you'll love it. Thanks for the Independent link, too.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-79377728788799887602012-04-30T07:37:16.389-04:002012-04-30T07:37:16.389-04:00for those of y'all who are too young to
...wel...for those of y'all who are too young to<br />...well ...<br />know much-of-anything<br /><br />here is a nice piece re: Lenore: <br /><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lenore-kandel-beat-poet-whose-the-love-book-fell-victim-to-one-of-san-franciscos-longest-ever-court-cases-1837947.html<br /><br />and<br /><br />WOWW !<br /><br />and just NOW seeing that she died in 2009 !!!<br /><br /><br />in all ways I prefer & inhaled the work of the "beat" lady poets<br /> before the men-poets got their grip<br /> on things....<br /><br />I think that I'll pay/order this one at the full price... AND NOT<br />one of those kindle 'things'<br /><br /><br />p.s. I do have that reprint version w the brownish<br />cover...<br /><br />sure am glad I "was there" in the late 50's and 60's and 70's<br /><br /><br />shld have kept my notebooks .... and written down more of<br /> now ? all af that revisionist, academic, appropriation c=r=a=p<br />is driving me to ...... (a self-cancelling) isolation &<br />futilityEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-42370697526358059172012-04-30T06:33:44.100-04:002012-04-30T06:33:44.100-04:00Lyle:
Her studies of Buddhism and Hinduism, along...Lyle:<br /><br />Her studies of Buddhism and Hinduism, along with classic mythology, have given that kind of feel to her languages. Besides the Shakespearean pacing you detect, there is a kind of spiritual language in her work, too, especially in her longer poems.<br /><br />More soon.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-67903539603806009742012-04-30T06:31:19.546-04:002012-04-30T06:31:19.546-04:00Anon:
I'm happy to report that it is, along w...Anon:<br /><br />I'm happy to report that it is, along with the entire "Word Alchemy" and over 150 more pages of previously uncollected work.<br /><br />A review coming soon ...<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-83752797091948534402012-04-29T23:00:57.298-04:002012-04-29T23:00:57.298-04:00I like the lines by Lenore Kandel that you've ...I like the lines by Lenore Kandel that you've quoted here. Her lines and her language sound almost Shakespearean -- when I first read the lines, I almost heard them in that blank verse pentameter Shakespeare used throughout his plays. Quite remarkable. She did have an ear.Lyle Daggetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-42767455565403717592012-04-29T19:26:48.565-04:002012-04-29T19:26:48.565-04:00is The Love Book in this Collected ?
I lent my co...is The Love Book in this Collected ?<br /><br />I lent my copy to a "friend" about in 1974<br />& she destroyed it !<br /><br /><br />K.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com