Kenward Elmslie's poetic memories o...

Kenward Elmslie's poetic memories of life with John Latouche and the pause of the New York exercise would make me feel terribly nostalgic for burst Art, Bebop, and the highbrow Beats (Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, etc) save for sum of two units mitigating factors: 1. Like greatest in number of us, I was not at any time actually "there"; and 2. His evocations of the "scene" are either too vague, too artificial, or too personal for anyone otherwise to get a memory (real or fantasized) in edgewise. This doesn't mean I don't like Blast from the Past--it is the two elegantly laid-out (with cloyed page reproductions of ...