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Tag Archives: suitcase on the loose

The young Bob Dylan was a poet, an inspired one.

October 14, 2016 Alex ShoumatoffBlog1 Comment1

The prophet of the counterculture, six years older than me. In l967 I was twenty years old and in my last year of Harvard, studying poetry composition with Robert Lowell, who had inherited the mantle of greatest living poet in the great English tradition after the death of Robert Frost. I had studied ancient Greek …Read More

Kate Garrigle died on Monday night

January 20, 2010 Alex ShoumatoffBlogLeave a comment0

after a lengthy and brave fight against the Big C. She was the producer of Suitcase on the Loose, a dear friend, and an exceptionally wonderful human. I tried to express what she meant to me on McGarrigles.com. It was the 166th comment in only four hours. Now there are over 300 from all the …Read More

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