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“I once took a poetry workshop taught by a guy called Ed Dorn. You may have heard of Ed Dorn. He's a fairly famous guy, as poets go, and he's written his fair share of well- known poems. The first day of Dorn's poetry workshop consisted of him delivering a sometimes scathing and mostly nonsensical monologue that veered from Roman aqueducts to the Russian poet Akhmatova to indigenous North African p”
“What Tom Waits does to the blues is something like what newspapers do to bright colors — in the way that a picture of the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling ends up looking like roast beef in the morning edition, Waits’ arty, seasick imagination turns a rural American song form into a garish, surreal fantasy. Mule Variations, […]”
