File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1999/avant-garde.9906, message 6


Subject: Re: Heroin use and creativity
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 99 18:47:46 -0000
From: rollison <djr4r-AT-virginia.edu>


Naked Lunch and other Burroughs books from the 50s (Junky, Queer) fit the 
first part of your requirement, but I'm not sure about the second. If 
memory serves, I think poets John Wieners (The Hotel Wentley Poems) and 
Philip Lamantia were both heroin users, and their work from the 50s 
reflects this. Also Herbert Huncke, the honorary uncle (aunt) of the N.Y. 
beats, was a junkie and wrote a memoir and some stories. But among these 
maybe only the poetry demonstrates an explicit link with creativity.

Damian
(new to list)

________________________
The almost-not-believed Moon moved in ghost among the things we are made 
to believe or make to believe. "I was once Great Artemis" she whisperd. 
"I was once Madam Moon in full. But let me join the toys to hang in the 
window of Make Believe, for ride through the years we must by whatever 
ruse."

--Robert Duncan, "Three Pages from a Birthday Book"




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