richard
great to read your work again would love to hear you read it was always a very sensual trip-when? poetry that is the sound stuff. gorgeous. the slow twisting of image dissolving into image and then just sound.
--kat
06/18 |
Wow! Your expose of drugs and sex is quite an eye catcher without being graphic. Well done! Glaad to hear that you have changed your lifestyle but what I am curious about is how well were you able to focus on protecting yourself from sexually transmitted diseases. Drugs seemed to help you focus on your need for sex but were you able to focus on safe sex excluding the encounters that involved no exchange of bodily fluids
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--sm
06/13 |
The personal facts of the author aside-- i never read anythign that said, "non-fiction"-- this was a well written piece.
--jr
06/12 |
I was a former roomate of Hell and find his relationship to the truth in terms of historical accuracy to be tenuous at best. He glosses over the amount of time he sQuanDerEd, conniving and schemeing to procure his illicit substances and the loot required to obtain them.
In essence he traded in iconic status to maintain a sordid and self-indulgent jUNKie lifestYle. This retreat from true artistic endeavor is manifested in the FACT that his best work was all completed before the end of the seventies.
His essay exists not because it is strewn with forensic epiphanies, but because it inches toward responding to the ever dwindling posed query:
Whatever happenned to Richard Hell?
Richard may wish to dispute these dismal FACTS,
but I'm comfortable with that, for my HONESTY abSolVes me.
--NZ
06/07 |
Absolutely f*cking brilliant! Phenominal piece.
--ME
06/06 |
Richard Hell's description of sex on heroin made me want to throw a tantrum, quit my job, go down to 16th and mission and spend the rest of my days drug addled but finally smoothed out, like when you finally get your fingernails to reach the spot in the middle of your back that's been itching like fuck for days.
well i have to go back to being a receptionist now.
--kg
06/05 |
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