Re: RARA-AVIS: Slamming the Doors

From: JIM DOHERTY ( jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com)
Date: 16 Sep 2003

Kev,

Re your comment below:

> Hard-boiled is an attitude, and I don't think
> Morrison had that
> attitude, whereas Zevon and Cash both did. In
> spades. There was a
> darkness at the heart of some of their best work
> that was presented
> straight up, no chaser. I doubt either of them
> considered themselves
> poets, but they were both damn fine writers whose
> work was (Jim, take
> note!) tough and colloquial.

I'm not familiar enough with Zevon to comment, but about Cash you have my whole-hearted agreement.

JIM DOHERTY

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