Eileen Myles [Guest host: Jeff Alessandrelli]
The Lives of Writers
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The Importance of Longing
The poem was a pitch to his then girlfriend who kept insisting he come to New York and be with her. "I wanted, I mean, it really was just a syncretic, syncretist wish to kind of merge the two existence in a really ludicrous way" The song is called V E E by Bob Dylan's former bandmate Bobby V. 'It's an entirely literal poem, except that it's completely insane'
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