Comments on: “This was a glorious madman who would not let reason stop him from acquiring books” http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/%e2%80%9cthis-was-a-glorious-madman-who-would-not-let-reason-stop-him-from-acquiring-books%e2%80%9d/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Oliver Simon http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/%e2%80%9cthis-was-a-glorious-madman-who-would-not-let-reason-stop-him-from-acquiring-books%e2%80%9d/#comment-21252 John Oliver Simon Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:56:21 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4501#comment-21252 I've told in one of these unfindable intestinal threads about printing a pirate HOLY GRAIL in 1969 and being interrogated (at the Muir Beach mussel feast to welcome Gary Snyder home from Japan), and let off the hook for radical purity of motive by nine other than Donald Allen. Fool, they cried in voices more like angels watching. Fool! I've got the original edition of BILLY THE KID. There is honey in the groin, Billy. I’ve told in one of these unfindable intestinal threads about printing a pirate HOLY GRAIL in 1969 and being interrogated (at the Muir Beach mussel feast to welcome Gary Snyder home from Japan), and let off the hook for radical purity of motive by nine other than Donald Allen. Fool, they cried in voices more like angels watching. Fool!

I’ve got the original edition of BILLY THE KID. There is honey in the groin, Billy.
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]]> By: Don Share http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/07/%e2%80%9cthis-was-a-glorious-madman-who-would-not-let-reason-stop-him-from-acquiring-books%e2%80%9d/#comment-21215 Don Share Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:08:44 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=4501#comment-21215 Spicer! <a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2009/07/don-shares-favorite-covers.html" rel="nofollow"> Click here, too!!</a> Spicer! Click here, too!!
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