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American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer (1933-2015)
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-12-19 19:02:54
Instapoets Are Having A Moment. Should We Take This Seriously?
The last time poetry saw this kind of action was with the cable knit sweater-clad poet and singer-songwriter Rod McKuen, who sold millions of books and millions more albums in the late 1960s and early 1970s with titles like “Listen to the Warm” — far outstripping the reach of not only an artist like Leonard Cohen, but […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2015-01-30 10:08:08
Rod McKuen, 81, Poet And Songwriter
“[He was] the husky-voiced ‘King of Kitsch’ whose avalanche of music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and ’70s overwhelmed critical mockery and made him an Oscar-nominated songwriter and one of the best-selling poets in history.”
2014-02-05 21:07:33
Canon to the right, canon to the left
[…] is having fun. It is a view of an idealized perfection that we have disastrously fallen short of. It is one form of imbecility. The problem from the other side is an egalitarianism that is just as moronic. According to them, nothing is better than anything else. Either it is merely a question of personal taste, or it is one of cultural identity. By their standards, it is elitist to prefer Pablo Neruda to Rod McKuen. Let them, I say, let them renew their subscriptions to Us magazine. They can deconstruct its gossip to death and find the parallels with Plutarch — if they only knew who Plutarch was. To consider one “text” more important than another, for them, is to promote colonialism and the subjugation of the downtrodden. Hence, they judge not by esthetic considerations — it’s all just personal taste to them — but rather by politics. For […]
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