How come nobody raves about Richard Brautigan any more?

[swag]

Is it because he was the Tom Robbins of poetry?

[Hugin]

1. Hmm... Richard Brautigan.

You're right, that's a name I haven't heard in quite awhile.

[datasuspect]

2. why come no one raves about laura branigan anymore?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdVEM5WMDo0

[asthmaticeog]

3. I think there are two reasons.

1) He looked like an old hippie farmer.

2) Suicide victims don't interest anyone unless they're household-name famous like Hemingway or Cobain.

3) Nobody gives two fucks for poetry. OK, that's three, three reasons.

[Rambis]

4. The Stunt Poets read his stuff

These guys feature his poems before they do tunes. They read a different poet's work every gig.

http://72.245.197.196/stunt/index.htm

[Burma Jones]

5. Because he sucked

Although, I think you say that in your OP.......

[swag]

6. Hey, how can you say that the lines below suck?

I feel horrible. She doesn't
love me and I wander around
like a sewing machine
that's just finished sewing
a turd to a garbage can lid.

Oh, I guess I see your point.

[zanne]

9. MAN by Richard Brautigan

With his hat on,

He's taller than a taxi cab.

--Not exactly Poet Laureate material.

[Rambis]

11. Or this...

Donner Party


Forsaken, fucking in the cold,
eating each other, lost
runny noses,
complaining all the time
like so many
people
that we know

Richard Brautigan

[Tyler Durden]

7. How about that he's DEAD and been dead for for 23 years?

I don't hear people bring up ee cumings, or Sylvia Plath, or even Jack Kerouac on a daily basis.

He might not have been Walt Whitman, but even Carl Sandburg and Maya Angelou occasionally wrote a klinker.

[triguy46]

8. Um, because we all cut back on our recreational drug use?

times change and not every artists stands the test of time. At best he was a niche author, cult figure. Kind of a literary one trick pony.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Because we've gone from a country of partially cultured people to a people of American Idol

Why should they be celebrating books - books of all things! - by intelligent people?