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ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY
2000 American Book Award winner
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"
just another ex-jazz-musician/proto-rapper/Jersey-Irish-poet-actor/print-junkie/film-raptor/beat-hipster-"white Negro"-rhapsodizer/ex-hippie-punk-'60s-radical-organizer's take on all things cultural, political, spiritual & aggrandizing
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UPCOMING EVENTS
TBA
SAY IT AGAIN: An Autobiography In Sonnets
CLICK ON IMAGES BELOW FOR LINKS TO ORDER (OR EMAIL ME FOR A SIGNED COPY OF ANY TITLES BELOW)
ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY
THE VILLAGE SONNETS
SWING THEORY
LOST ANGELS
IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE
IT'S NOT NOSTALGIA
2000 American Book Award winner
MARCH 18, 2003
WHAT YOU FIND THERE
CANT BE WRONG
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"
OF
ROCKY DIES YELLOW
HOLLYWOOD MAGIC
CATCH MY BREATH
ATTITUDE
some recordings of my reading from some of the books above
- PUMA PERL AND ME READING 2022
- interviewed by Grace Cavalieri for The Poet and The Poem Series
- interviewed by E. Ethelbert Miller on DC's WPFW, scroll down to On The Margins April26th 9AM
- Don Yorty filmed me reading "Sports Heroes, Cops and Lace" in my pad 2015
- Don Yorty filmed me reading "Love Never Dies" at KGB Bar 2015
- 8/11/2014 INTERVIEW/READING FRIGGIN' FABULOUS RADIO (PART ONE)
- INTERVIEW/READING FRIGGIN' FABULOUS RADIO (PART TWO)
- 1997 NPR ("BOOKWORM") INTERVIEW (by Michael Silverblatt)/READING
- 1990 "Poetry in Motion" reading of "The Healing"
- VARIOUS READINGS ON AUDIO AND VIDEO FROM 1977 TO RECENT AS ARCHIVED ON PENNSOUND
- 2008 LOCAL JERSEY TV READING/INTERVIEW WITH ME & POET JOSE FUNES
- TOM WILSON'S LALLY/OBAMA MASHUP
other sites where my work is discussed
- I Might Die Of Love For You/Burt Kimmelman reviews Another Way To Play
- JERSEY INDIE on my Leap Day 2016 reading
- Times Times 3/Swing Theory review
- Countdown To Main Street "Swing Theory"
- Best American Poetry Blog/David Lehman reviews Swing Theory
- Times Times 3
- Countdown To Main Street
- Jacket/Burt Kimmelman interviews me
- the parent du jour
- L.A. Examiner/Yvonne de la Vega interviews me
- Espresso Bongo/Jerome Sala on my writing
- fait accompli (scroll down)/Nick Piambino on my writing
- The Best Am. Poetry Blog/Brain Surgery T.Winch
- The Best American Poetry Blog
- doug lang's lally post
- doug lang's dc poetry history
- dc poetry history
- Vanitas/Libellum site reviews
- Last Night at the KGB Bar
- wikipedia as "Michael Lally (poet)"
- poem on The Best American Poetry Blog
- The Innisfree Poetry Journal
- AS AN ACTOR: YouTube
- IMDb (as Michael David Lally actor/with some incorrect info)
About Me
- Lally
MY LIFE 2
When I was 10,
I thought I was "Irish,"
even though I was
born in the USA.
When I was 20,
I thought I was "Black,"
even though my skin
is pink & freckled,
my hair is straight,
and I have no
African ancestry.
When I was 30,
I thought I was "queer,"
even though I was
married and had
two children, and
most of my fantasies
& obsessions & com-
pulsions & attractions
were and had always
been (up until then)
about women.
When I was 40,
I thought I was a
"movie star," even
though the movies
were terrible, and
I was terrible in
them, and almost
no one knew them,
or who I might
have been in them.
When I was 50,
I thought I was
"enlightened," even
though I wasn't.
But of course I was
and am—enlightened,
as I was and still am
—an Irish-Black-
Queer-Movie-Star.
CHECK OUT THESE BLOGS/SITES
- Rachel E. Diken
- @haikuavenue
- Don Yorty
- NauenThen
- BIRTH OF THE COOL
- EAST OF WEST L.A.
- COUNTDOWN TO MAIN STREET
- John Clarke
- Times Times 3
- TOM CLARK Beyond The Pale
- Leslie Greene
- The Best American Poetry (blog)
- Silliman's Blog
- Ken McCollough poet
- NOTES
- espresso bongo
- IFSF publishing
- E-NOTES
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- The Allen Ginsberg Project
- If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
- Hullabaloo
- DANGEROUS MINDS
- Friggin Fabulous Radio
- the year of yellow butterflies (the blog)
- A LONGHOUSE BIRDHOUSE
- BELGIAN WAFFLE
- Really Bad Movies
- Vanitas Magazine blog site
- MY EYE AND I
- KINDSIGHT
- PAUL'S ART
- THE TEACHER'S VIEW
- fait accompli
- Trying To Be Cool
- McPherson's Lament
- Zuckerman's Journal
- Cord Keller's Albums
- Bill DeNoyelles: Ports of Entry
- douglangsfilmblog
- douglang'sdcpoetryblog
- MY ALASKAN ADVENTURES
- TERENCE WINCH
- Rain Worthington, Composer
- MAUREEN OWEN HOME PAGE
- Nikki Nash
- erictrules.com
- JOE BRAINARD
- MIND HONEY
- PENNSOUND
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- MARION BROWN R.I.P.
- [Thanks to my friend Ty Granderson Jones for hip...
- TEA PARTY TRIPPING
- JOHNNY SHEFFIELD R.I.P.
- TIME FOR A HUMOR BREAK
- QUOTE OF THE DAY
- BOLANO'S MONSIEUR PAIN AND MY BRAIN SURGERY
- I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK
- TOM BOSLEY R.I.P.
- NOWHERE BOY
- HERE'S A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS
- A CONVERSATION
- THE RIGHTWING MAINSTREAM MEDIA
- ELEVEN MONTHS SINCE BRAIN SURGERY
- YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER
- SO UTTERLY, UNBELIEVABLY TYPICAL
- MONDAY MONDAY
- AUTUMN IN THE 'SHIRE
- CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS
- AND THE ANSWER!
- HERE'S AN IDEA AND A CONUNDRUM
- ANDREA LEE'S INTERESTING WOMEN & LOST HEARTS IN ITALY
- NOT TO TURN THIS BLOG INTO A SERIES OF CUT AND PAS...
- AND ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE/BUT EQUALLY QUOTABLE: P...
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- QUICK HMMMMM..
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7 comments:
I must confess I have not read him, however, if the posters are a window to his mind, than he only recognises the evil corrupt side of humanity. The side of our better angels is also worth recognition. I find pessimism boring.
What????????????? You find pessimism boring??? Excuse me, this is the liberal-hating Obama-bashing "Jim"? So now you are an optimist?
And you're implying that you are somehow proud that you haven't read Kurt Vonnegut??? Do you stay away from evil and corrupt writers like Mark Twain too? This has got to be the craziest post you've done on Michael's blog.
For crazy post by this yo-yo, just take your pick.
Mark Twain was my hero. I thought him anything but a pessimist. I do not hate Obama, I hate big government intrusive socialism. He just happens to favor that.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
- Mark Twain's Notebook, 1902-1903
...the man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
- Mark Twain's Notebook, 1902-1903
(For the record: I am a die-hard optimist.)
I saw in Tom Sayer the rascally and lovable entrepeneur (sp), In today's political world, Tom could have grown up to be Bill Clinton. In my view, Huck Finn was a two part novel. The first part was the story of good and evil and triumph of good in a world that was cruel and evil. The second part was Huck's struggle against the mores and conventions of the times. Women folk seemed to want to smother him with kindness and direction, somewhat like today's nanny state.
Mark Twain was a complex man and certainly was a liberal for his time. He was an optimist a pessimist a grand story teller and a man that could laugh and make others laugh at the human condition. He was a man full of human frailties but yet the most dominant author, possibly in American history. I believe he celebrated the strength and character of the individual in his wonderful stories.
PS In the last few years I have reread Twain with my twins, James and Shannon. They under-appreciated Twain. Tom Sawyer was my favorite character until I discovered Jack London's stories. The twins were particuarly hung up with some of the vernacuclar like, " I am gonin lick em". Maybe, in my youth we spoke like that in the school yard.
PSS Excuse the spelling.
Jim: God damn it, you've got to be kind!
~ Willy
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