Check out a panel discussion and launch event to celebrate the publication of Daniel Kane’s “Do You have a Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City, with Gillian McCain (co-author, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk) and Marvin Taylor (Head of Special Collections & Fales Library).
Thursday, September 7, at 7PM at New York University – Fales Library & Special Collections at 70 Washington Square South, 3rd floor, New York
In the book, Kane reveals how the new sounds of proto-punk and punk music found their way into the poetry of the 1960s and 1970s downtown scene, enabling writers to develop fresh ideas for their own poetics and performance styles. Likewise, groups like The Fugs and the Velvet Underground drew on writers as varied as William Blake and Delmore Schwartz for their lyrics.