Do Angels Need Haircuts?: Early Poems by Lou Reed
Lou Reed
Hardcover |Ā 19 x 1.2 x 25.4 cm | 80 pp
Anthology Editions | 2018 | 9781944860219
In August of 1970, 28-year-old Lou Reed quit the Velvet Underground, moved home to Long Island, New York, and embarked on a fascinating alternate creative path: poetry. Spending months in relative isolation, the musician refashioned himself, publicly vowing to never again play rock and roll. Reed wrote verse and contributed his work to journals and small press publications. āIām a poet,ā he proclaimed from the stage of St. Markās Church in March 1971. Though his retirement from music wouldnāt lastāonly six months later he began recording his debut solo albumāReedās passionate identification with the written word was solidified, and would last the rest of his life.
Do Angels Need Haircuts?Ā is an extraordinary snapshot of this turning point in Reedās career. This book, the first to be produced by the Lou Reed Archive, gathers poems, photographs from the eraāby Mick Rock, Moe Tucker, and othersā as well as images from rare poetry zines. Featuring a new foreword by Anne Waldman, archival notes by Don Fleming, and an afterword by Laurie Anderson, Do Angels Need Haircuts? provides a window to a little-known chapter in the life of one of the most singular and uncompromising voices in American popular culture.
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Lou Reed
Hardcover |Ā 19 x 1.2 x 25.4 cm | 80 pp
Anthology Editions | 2018 | 9781944860219
In August of 1970, 28-year-old Lou Reed quit the Velvet Underground, moved home to Long Island, New York, and embarked on a fascinating alternate creative path: poetry. Spending months in relative isolation, the musician refashioned himself, publicly vowing to never again play rock and roll. Reed wrote verse and contributed his work to journals and small press publications. āIām a poet,ā he proclaimed from the stage of St. Markās Church in March 1971. Though his retirement from music wouldnāt lastāonly six months later he began recording his debut solo albumāReedās passionate identification with the written word was solidified, and would last the rest of his life.
Do Angels Need Haircuts?Ā is an extraordinary snapshot of this turning point in Reedās career. This book, the first to be produced by the Lou Reed Archive, gathers poems, photographs from the eraāby Mick Rock, Moe Tucker, and othersā as well as images from rare poetry zines. Featuring a new foreword by Anne Waldman, archival notes by Don Fleming, and an afterword by Laurie Anderson, Do Angels Need Haircuts? provides a window to a little-known chapter in the life of one of the most singular and uncompromising voices in American popular culture.
