I just received my copy of "Jack Kerouac: Reflections Upon The Fiftieth Anniversary Of 'On The Road'" (ed. Ron Whitehead and Robert Zoschke, Published In Heaven Books 2007). The title explains the contents pretty accurately. Now, there are a million and one books about Kerouac, but this one--he said a tad snobbishly--is assembled by poets and written by poets, so it's a little different. And get the list of contributors: Anne Waldman, t.kilgore splake, Norbert Blei, Gerald Nicosia, Dave Church, Steve Dalachinsky, the actor Michael Madsen, Hersh Silvermann, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ron Whitehead, the force of nature that is Robert Zoschke. And many more. That's a pretty impressive line-up, don't you think?
Oh, and I'm in it too. A little essay I knocked up called "On The Road and Jack: A Meditation On The Run." Self-promoting blog entries are really boring, I know. And I bet they never increased a poet's sales by more than one or two. The main reason I'm mentioning this here is that I'm absurdly pleased with myself to be in the book. (Let's be honest.) Sitting in there alongside such august names I feel weirdly humbled, as if I'm gonna get found out and excised from the second edition.
For more information about the book, go to the splendidly-named http://www.tappingmyownphone.com/
4 comments:
Congratulations, Bruce! You SHOULD be absurdly and wildly pleased...WOW...
May the City Lights shine brightly upon you!
Thanks Sharon. Funny, isn't it, you get what you want and then you wonder if you deserve it.
Man is a strange little animal.
Now to the next level. A chapbook of my own.
(A word to the uninitiated. Sharon Auberle is a great poet--I mean, a really excellent poet--whose presence here flatters the page enormously. Check out her own blog "Mimi's Golightly Cafe", which you'll find under the links section here. It's contains more wisdom than you'll find in six months on this page, though S.P. has its attractions too...)
aw shucks, gee whiz, Bruce, you're too kind.
lookin' forward to that chapbook...
Well done, Bruce.
I always feel that way, too -- like I have somehow fooled the editor, and that with publication of the book/chap/magazine, editor will realise his/her mistake.
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