
Tin House Live : How to Write a Hoax Poem with Kevin Young
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Hoax of Max Harris
Max harris was brought up on obscenity charges for publishing the poems he was pursued by an incompetent and over eager legal system. He now was standing by the poems as literature in order to say that they weren't obscenity though he was convicted and fined five pounds yet still avoided prison. i said up from blake images from dahlia banden lines of the poet's own and even an american report on the drainage of breeding grounds mosquitoes um so the it gets revealed it's in the newspaper it was really front page news because the angry penguins were very popular but there was clearly a kind of both a shahn and froyda and a jealousy which is how max
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