Anyone have Wormwood Review No. 42 (Vol.11, No.2) 1971?
Would you please check a poem from page 65, 'The Great Writer'.
(It may be called 'The Mystery of the Great Writer in Bed' or even just 'A Great Writer').
Anyhow, please compare it to 'a great writer' as collected in 'The People Look Like Flowers At Last' (page 288) and 'The Pleasures of the Damned' (page 228).
I've been listening to the Nola tapes (a.k.a. King of Poets) and a version of this poem is read there as 'The Mystery of the Great Writer in Bed'.
If someone would be good enough to check the Wormwood poem title and confirm if it is the same / a very similar peom or completely different.
Thanks in advance folks.
As collected:-
Would you please check a poem from page 65, 'The Great Writer'.
(It may be called 'The Mystery of the Great Writer in Bed' or even just 'A Great Writer').
Anyhow, please compare it to 'a great writer' as collected in 'The People Look Like Flowers At Last' (page 288) and 'The Pleasures of the Damned' (page 228).
I've been listening to the Nola tapes (a.k.a. King of Poets) and a version of this poem is read there as 'The Mystery of the Great Writer in Bed'.
If someone would be good enough to check the Wormwood poem title and confirm if it is the same / a very similar peom or completely different.
Thanks in advance folks.
As collected:-
a great writer
a great writer remains in bedshades downdoesn't want to see anyonedoesn't want to write anymoredoesn't want to try anymore;the editors and publishers wonder:some say he's insanesome say he's dead;his wife now answers all the mail:". . . he does not wish to . . ."and some others even walk up and downoutside his house,look at the pulled-downshades;some even go up and ring thebell.nobody answers.the great writer does not want to bedisturbed. perhaps the great writer is notin? perhaps the great writer has goneaway?
but they all want to know the truth,to hear his voice, to be told some goodreason for it all.
if he has a reasonhe does not reveal it.perhaps there isn't anyreason?
strange and disturbing arrangements aremade; his books and paintings are quietlyauctioned off;no new work has appeared now foryears.
yet his public won't accept hissilence-if he is deadthey want to know; if he isinsane they want to know; if he has areason, please tell us!
they walk past his housewrite lettersring the bellthey cannot understand and will notacceptthe way things are.
I rather likeit.
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