Conversations
Part of the series Beyond Baroque and Beyond
Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weissman, Amy Gerstler & Tosh Berman
TUE JUN 22, 2021 7 PM PDT
An online tête-à-tête between Tosh Berman and poet-auteurs Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weissman, and Amy Gerstler about their so-called poet-gang, the special friendships formed by the L.A. literati in the early 1980s, being influenced by the French (i.e. literary hauntedness), and the specific problems and pleasantries of poetic programming.
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