Sunday, April 16, 2006

Alan Sondheim has hisself a blog. the vastness of his work includes just about everything imaginable, and some things perhaps not even that. d'ja know he was in a band with Al Wilson (of Canned Heat, the guy with the Skip James voice)? he hung with Kathy Acker, he hung with Clark Coolidge. like him or not, he's the sine qua non of sine qua non, there's no way to argue otherwise. and given the breadth and variety of his work, if you can't find something in his work then you're just being a shit. as evidence, the weenies that periodically (that is to say regularly) griped about his presence on the Poetics list. a blog is kind of a populist step for him, but it does allow a narrative sense to come forth.

1 comment:

Anny Ballardini said...

I agree 100% with you Allen. He is just about everything, see on the Poets' Corner how many things I put on of him. But just because I try to limit my choice, based on no particular line.