In What Just HAPPENED, Richard Hell\'s new poems are interspersed with images created for the book by Christopher Wool.
Essay..
Poetry.
The poems are accompanied by an essay on the subject of Falling Asleep, which experience Richard asserts as the seminal one of reality, and the book is completed with an 88-entry list, Chronicle, drawn from Hell\'s recent years\' notebooks.
Nearly all the poems in What Just Happened were written during the 2020-2021 pandemic.
He hasn\'t published a proper book of new poems until now, 50 years later. movement Hell had a lot to do with triggering, he left music behind too, in favor of fiction and journalism.
After 10 years and the impact of punk, which D.
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He still wrote poems at times but didn\'t want to be seen as a rock poet, so he underplayed that part of his story.
Kentucky native Richard Meyers dropped out of high school and moved to New York to be a poet, but after a few years of writing and editing poems and pamphlets and literary magazines he decided--in 1972--to change his name to Hell and sing and write songs in a rock and roll band instead.
Hell\'s seminal essay Falling Asleep and Chronicle, a list drawn from his recent years\' notebooks, complete the collection.
In What Just HAPPENED, Richard Hell\'s new poems are interspersed with images created for the book by Christopher Wool