'DO YOU HAVE A BAND?

During the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, New York City poets and musicians played together, published each o ther, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In Do You Have a Band?, Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this compelling exchange and its challenge to the status of the visionary artist, the cultural capital of poetry, and the lines dividing sung lyric from page-bound poem. Kane reveals how the new sounds of proto-punk and punk music found their way into the...[Read more]