Matthew Young is a new beat poet, and also a Doors fan, the second name Young --- in this case is correct --- because both the poetry and the poet are! I especially dug: 'Brendan Behans' Glass', 'Diet Christ', 'Dreaming Like A Symphony' and 'Dublin Ramblings'; amongst the 247 pages of Matthew's first poetry works in his new book: BEATING THE LILIES.
Meeting Matt a couple of years ago on a poetry reading trip with other Doors fans in that low-lit Rue de la Roquette passage, near my fave Parisian hotel the Royal Bastille --- we hung like Beats and talked poetry and Doors stuff; and hung with a chick called Kat who was into Hemingway: all outside in the cool breeze of a July night. This cat is a traveler and a seeker, and what comes through on these works of his, is a man in touch with the true spirit of Beat! ... like all good poetry you'll have to read some of these a few times over --- to lean on all the angles...
Darryl Read
Berlin February 2008
www.darrylread.com
hi,
thank you for visiting. hope you enjoy some (preferably all) of the poetry on this site. if interested, I have just published a 255 page book of poetry titled 'Beating the Lilies' which is available here:
thanks again for stopping by!
also, if you're interested in the visual arts, I have a page at: hippo84.deviantart.com
more poems at: www.poetrypublisher.com/matthewyoung
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