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...Especially here in America, it's a big learning process which is going through the scene. I saw what we sold in England compared to America, which was amazing. America is now starting. A lot of people know me just from the underground record scene, record stores, clubs I've played for the last 12 months or so. Now the people hear my name more and more, and they try to identify my name with a kind of music. I think I am so successful at the moment because my sound is different. I love it! I can live with...
...does a poet, once underground, unrecognized, and, to most people, incomprehensible, become beloved by the academic world...
...here promoting the re-release of One Hundred Multiple Choice Questions-a prescient burlesque, it seems, of "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire"-and the small press that first published it 30 years ago, Adventures in Poetry. Edited by Larry Fagin, a iconic figure in New York underground, Adventures in Poetry was one of several dozen shoestring publishing ventures that burst onto the scene during the "Mimeo-revolution" of the 1960s. The revival of the press represents an effort both to rehabilitate the spirit of community that characterized the New York avant-garde while highlighting what Fagin thinks...
...manuscripts." North, gentle and erudite, partly blames the "fake professionalization of poetry and by the MFA phenomenon" for the shoddy state of contemporary verse. Indeed, Masters programs at prestigious schools (of which Iowa is the most famous) seem increasingly out of touch with the imaginative energy so consistent of underground communities. But today's problems are also economic. When publishing was cheaper, poets could devote their time to the serious business of writing verse-and keep their sense of humor about it. "Now," Fagin laments, "poets are not serious and no fun. One cannot have fun when...
...work. Far from the tight vertical chain of command that media reports tend to imply when they tie diverse terror attacks to the alleged terrorist mastermind, observers and investigators believe that his networks may in fact be a lot more diffuse and autonomous, consisting instead of local Islamist underground armies - often linked by networks of Afghanistan vets - sharing resources and making common cause with Bin Laden's campaign against the U.S. Add to that the Yemeni haste to finish the investigation, and the suspects may once again be dead before we know where they got their orders...