The test of great writing is its ability to transcend time and remain relevant and immediate. “Smack Yourself Senseless” is just that. Watch the clip and see for yourself.
Max Blagg was born in England and came to New York in 1971 after a summer of reading Ted Berrigan and Frank O’Hara in London. He was on a quest for adventure, literary success and American girls. He succeeded on all counts.
It is never easy to be a poet – but being a poet in a nightclub? “Reading in places like Tin Pan Alley and the Pyramid, you had a much tougher crowd,” Max recalled, “not the polite ‘listen to navelgazing tedium for an hour without screaming’ type of poetry fan, but a new kind of listener who had maybe never gone to a poetry reading (and in some cases, never would again!). You had to perform this material in order to get it across, so sometimes there was more chest than heart, but just having the opportunity to try it out in these eccentric venues was a challenge and it often turned out pretty well.”
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