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Bob Holman

Properietor of the Bowery Poetry Club, Bob has written many books of poetry, and has two new books out from YBK/Bowery Books written fifty years apart. Life Poem was written when he was 19 and living in a commune in the Berkshires. The unspoken is new and selected, written recently while living in NYC above the Bowery Poetry Club.

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FREEDOM

Bob Holman

FREEDOM Thanks to Darryl Alladice FREEDOM to put lima beans and black-eyed peas together FREEDOM to take off BB King's watch FREEDOM to shout "Let's hit it" on every Other beat FREEDOM to look at everybody whenever yo...
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Poem

Sing This One Back to Me

Bob Holman

Honeybee honeybee deep in the honeytree Do not tell me to suck dry the tips of whip grass Swan sway swan sway Ganges flows all day Would you send me off then to the blasting seas? Tale singer nightingale crooner carousin...
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Previously, on Sensitive Skin!
Sid Vicious, photograph by Ruby Ray
Punk Photographs
Bob Holman
In the 1980s, through the early ’90s, I spent an awful lot of time travelling. Or maybe not travelling so much as running away. I was running away from this guy, this crazy g...
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Lili Brik by Rodchenko
Mayakovsky – New Translations
Bob Holman
Маяковский в 1913 году Я тебя в твоей не знала славе, Помню только бурный твой рассвет, Но, б...
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Elliott Sharp – Rare, Unreleased and Out-of-Print
Bob Holman
Elliott Sharp, a composer and multi-instrumentalist, playing mainly guitar, saxophone and bass clarinet, is one of the major figures in the New York downtown and experimental music...
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Fred & Patti Smith photograph by Sue Rynski
Detroit Punk Photographs
Bob Holman
My work is about rock and roll, specifically the rock and roll environment(s) I live in, the subculture. In 1977, just after art school, I fell into the art-and-punk Detroit scene ...
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Shiny Kitten - Marina Loeb
I’ve Got My Shiny Kitten
Bob Holman
— for Yun Peng Hell yeah I’m skinny. My body is COVERED in skin! But I’ve got my shiny kitten and I am not the same person I used to be. Shopping naked with my shi...
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