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WITHOUT fanfare or advance publicity, R?? Loewinsohn became the first poet in Harvard?? history to truck into Sanders Theatre on a motorcycle. Kevin Starr called the gesture "apocalyptic??? Loewinsohn called it "an objectification of his ???ture" (on Duncan and Ginsberg for Starr's Wester??? Lit. course). Possibly, the motorcycle entry spea??? as well for Loewinsohn's own poetry...
...wrong. Ron Loewinsohn is no Jame? Dean, no Peter Fonda, no Bob Dylan on the cover of "Highway 61 Revisited." He is soft-spoken, un??? pretentious, and probably doesn't even own ??? leather jacket. He is not looking for kicks ??? the fury of a Hell's Angel. He has worke??? photo-engraver, edited a magazine with ??? Brautigan (lifetime: one issue), studie???, been a teaching fellow at Harvard. His has ??? been the life of a rebel without a cause...
...poems appear ???halant at first, easy-going, like a conversation ???een two people who have met but are going ??? friends. Brautigan, of course, is the master ??? game; Sidney Goldfarb. also a Harvard ???-poet, is another player. (For instance: "On ??? to/ meet the astrologer/ 1 noticed my fly/ ??? down"). Loewinsohn plays it like he rode that ???cycle: real cool. "How can a girl with such a ???lly be so desirable?" he asks in the poem ???, Loewinsohn andc," then dubs the Lady. "Venus ???usseldorf, curvilinear, oviform," For an epi??? to the last group of poems in the book ???ok of Ayres," after...
...from its obvious shock value, a motor??? in Sanders Theatre, says Loewinsohn, helps ??? down the decorum of the place." In Meat ???corum-breakdown is accomplished by poems ??? pissing. Anal-fixative poetry is of course, as ??? as Chaucer and as current as what you read on ??? bathroom wall this morning. Since the poet ???ardly obsessed with this trick. one example. ??? the appropriately titled "Paean" is adequate...