Comments on: todd moore | chasing jack micheline’s shadow

By: zeitgeist | the shop

zeitgeist | the shop — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:12:50 +0000

[...] The stories about Jack Micheline are legion and they range all the way from fact to tall tale and anecdote. Jack Micheline was arrested on this corner, Jack Micheline was staggering drunk down that side of the street, Jack Micheline wrote a poem and gave it to Bob Kaufman right in front of that coffee house over there. Jack Micheline was everyman and Jack Micheline was no one. Jack Micheline was always on the hustle for a poem but Jack Micheline was incapable or simply refused to hustle himself to the mainstream publishers the way that Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, or William S. Burroughs did. That’s very possibly one of the reasons that Micheline’s work appeared in the small press for most of his life. That’s probably why his work remains uncollected in book form to this day, long after his death. Which is unfortunate simply because Jack Micheline was a major poet writing for limited print runs. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Please read the complete Todd Moore essay here… [...]

By: Tony Moffeit

Tony Moffeit — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:52:33 +0000

A brilliant essay by Todd Moore that is a great contrast to his Kell Robertson essay. Captures Outlaw Jack Micheline as he captured Outlaw Kell Robertson.

By: Mark Weber

Mark Weber — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:34:00 +0000

great writing Todd, and the observations very even-handed –

another cat who knows a lot about Jack is the kid Ben Gulyas in Cleveland a marvelous poet who refuses to be known outside of Cleveland probably has the d.a.levy complex

he’s not a kid anymore, probably 40-years-old now but he got to know Jack some but beyond that, he writes some great poems I’ve tried to get him on Zerx but he’s resistant

4july08

…..mark the speller