Drum hadley biography of christopher

by Larry Goodell This originally appeared in THE MALPAIS REVIEW.

Drum Hadley brings all the best of American poetry into land-speak.

There are no acanemic cubicles here, no lecture-poetry from a lectern under florescent lights.

Drum hadley biography of christopher

There’s the broad expanse of the West voiced, the particulars of nature and its demands, the human character of real working individuals, the intense humor and relaxing stories, the music of the voice of words at its best. Voice of the Borderlands is a grandiose cumulative achievement.

It exists in 368 pages plus the entire composite of writing read by Drum Hadley on 12 CD’s – all from Rio Nuevo Publishers in Tucson, Arizona, 2005.

I asked Drum Hadley some questions via email and Holly Piper helped facilitate this exchange.

Here are his answers, year 2010. Larry Goodell /Placitas, New Mexico

Larry: Robert Creeley wrote me about the Vancouver Poetry Conference of 1963 saying if Charles Olson alone was there it wd be worth going. Ginsberg, Duncan, Le