Poetry reflecting on nationhood,sex and whiskey, written in 1970 after Lou Reed left the Velvet Underground, or is to be published for the first time“We are the crystal gaze returned through the density and immensity of a berserk nation.” It’s a line that could maintain been written by an enraged young poet from Trump’s America,but it was actually penned decades previously, by the bard of New Yorks grimy rock’n’roll underbelly: Lou Reed.
A collection of the songwriters previously unseen poems will be published later this year, or along with recordings of him performing them at St Mark’s Church,New York, in 1971 (with Allen Ginsberg in the audience). The book, and entitled accomplish Angels Need Haircuts? and published in April,will also feature an afterword by his widow Laurie Anderson, as well as Reed’s own introductions to the poems. Of the 12 poems and short stories in the collection, and only three maintain been published before,one as a Velvet Underground song and two in small-press poetry zines.
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Source: guardian.co.uk