{"id":4859,"date":"2013-02-01T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2013-02-04T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T19:08:53","slug":"the-green-man-is-a-green-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/02\/the-green-man-is-a-green-terrorist.html","title":{"rendered":"‘The Green Man Is a Green Terrorist’"},"content":{"rendered":"

My blog staff of thousands didn’t have to do much to persuade me that Heathcote Williams’s newest dissident poem, a rhymed marvel of CAT-scan clarity, will be seen one day as a YouTube classic. Here are the opening lines transcribed from the video in four-line stanzas:<\/p>\n

Tangled vegetation sprouts from each orifice
\nFrom his mouth, his nose, and his ears
\nSignifying the creature’s urge to merge with nature
\nAnd rouse inhumanity’s darker fears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Click for the video. Listen to Heathcote Williams’s poem narrated by Alan Cox and watch the montage.<\/p><\/div>\n

He’s Dionysus dancing drunk around maypoles
\nHe’s Pan stamping a cleft foot on the ground
\nTo awaken the sleeping Earth’s spirits of springtime
\nAs winter dies and a new life force is found.<\/p>\n

Thanks to subversive stone masons in the Middle Ages
\nThis green remnant of man’s pagan past
\nFinds its way onto church ceilings, corbels, and bosses
\nAlong with Sheela na gigs mad with lust.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Williams messages that Cold Turkey Press<\/a> may be planning a print edition of “The Green Man Is a Green Terrorist.” If and when that happens, we’ll will pass the information along.<\/p>\n

(Crossposted at HuffPo)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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