...Ron Silliman has posted a bit on Joan Murray today.
She is indeed a very strange duck. She spent hardly any time in school, restricted in many ways by her long serious illnesses, but her isolation and self-education had at least one happy result: as a poet she was unfettered, as Ron suggests. Grant (Hyde) Code (whose own poetry--at least what I've seen--was rotten) cleaned up her awful spelling, titled almost all of the poems, and worst of all, substituted some of what Ron calls her Zen-garden stones with less thought-provoking clods, because he'd decided that she didn't really know what she was saying. Harrumph!
Grant Code published a poetry collection called Chalk Marks: Satires & City Poems (Branden Books, 1973) and was also apparently a somewhat successful movie actor. He appeared in both Serpico and The Miracle Worker, for instance.
Anyway, get Murray's poems here.
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