{"id":60680,"date":"2024-05-21T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=60680"},"modified":"2024-06-04T17:13:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T21:13:32","slug":"charles-plymell-takes-stage-for-new-selected-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2024\/05\/charles-plymell-takes-stage-for-new-selected-poems.html","title":{"rendered":"Charles Plymell Takes Stage for New and Selected Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Charles Plymell<\/a> reading poems from <\/em>Over the Stage of Kansas<\/em>: New & Selected Poems 1966-2023<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>published by Bottle of Smoke Press<\/a>, at the book launch in Hudson, NY, to celebrate his 89th birthday and sell some books.<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Plymell has as much in depth to say about death as Hemingway did and a lot more to say about it in terms of the present generation stillborn into a world that can offer nothing.<\/strong>
 \u2014 William S. Burroughs<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Plymell and his friends inventing the Wichita Vortex contribute to a tradition stretching back from Lamantia thru Sherwood Anderson to Poe and earlier American vibration artists of those provinces. \u2014 Allen Ginsberg<\/em><\/strong>

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One of 10 copies of the Deluxe Collector’s Edition signed by the poet and editor and with a silver gelatin photograph of the author, signed by Gerard Malanga [who edited the book]. Also containing a CD of Charles Plymell reading “In Memory of My Father.” [Courtesy Jeff Ball.]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Back cover and signed page for Jeff Ball, who purchased the first of the 10 copies of the Deluxe Collector’s Edition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Quotations taken from back cover of 
Over the Stage of Kansas<\/em>.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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