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Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Harry Nudel

Harry Nudel

Harry Nudel: Ted Joans LIves

        please
     Mr. Sweetness/
     Miss Light
     …
     horny
       is
       as..

   2 yrs later..he gave
me & A…a cupcake and
one of his books, What Else?
as a present for our formal
wedding…

    May 15 1981 4:30 PM
     Cuntgragulations
     on your new
     true day
          (of marital
          bliss
     So cock-a-doodle-do
     to two of you

     with Afrodisia

        Love
          Ted Joans & Alicia..

          (N.B…the last name)

   Paris…1983 in a copy of
     “sure, really I, IS”

       To Harry in Paris
       1983 our Nesting
       Place amongst Palaces
                August
                Le Premier
                1983..

    Paris 1984..in a copy of
    “The Aardvark Watcher
    Der Erdferkelforscher”

         To Harry in Paris
         where he walks and walks
                  Sept ’84

     On a piece of my Stationery

        Ted Joans in Paris 1990
        First Phone Jim Haynes

        40 rue de la Montagne Ste. Genevieve..

        Write or leave Message

        Daily rendezvous at Cafe Le Roquet
        4-6PM

        188 Blvd Saint Germaine

        I sit on the left hand side of this cafe
        If you do not see me, ask the waiter

   In a copy of Jazz Museum Presents
     Ted Joans

         Il etait une fois poetry reading
         moi et toi Harry….avec amities
                may 19..’90

         (with drawing of 2 jazz figures)

    Afrodisia toujours..
    After i pick him and Laura
    up in my clunker car..
    lunch at Sylvia’s and Langston’s
    house..

        from his own Hipness Harry
        on Langston Hughes steps
        at 20 east 127th ST.
        Langston Hughes House
        with brother-love as
        Langston would have it..
        29/9/92

    ’97…the beginning of the
    end..
        in a copy of Birth 3

     two Rhinoceri Drawings &

          to Harry Nudel (sic)
          who has yet to sell
          ‘our ticket that
          could explode”
          24/11/

   All over all Over
   over a
   book and an

   Ted and Laura
   dressed as Twin
   Teducations
   Walk on By..

   I send him anon
   some Rhino stamps..

   From Vancouver the
   last letter 200..

   ‘so i shall take
   the chance on straightening
   out the crooked curve
   that cause wrinkles in
   our brows..”

   Ted, the lecon of the
   master…
   you steal from the past
   esp. you own
   & don’t hustle the hustler…

    drn/drn…

Ted Joans WOW sun logo

Harry Nudel & Lori Reinstein:

FEAR
     FROM THE
POET
     BUT THE
TRUTH
  

Ted f...ed...a 1,0001
women including
Marilyn Monroe

Ted roomed with
Charlie Parker
when he died
& chalked
BIRD LIVES
all over the www

Ted & Paul Bowles
drinking turkish coffee
in Tangiers
when the ferry unloaded 
all these refugees...
the first time either
had seen hippies...

......
& from the other side of
the bed...


Ted
Red, white & blue

4th of July
Ted

Ted
Cairo Paris Timbuktoo
Restless, Peripatetic
now Galactic
Ted

("Be-at-ified"
We sighed)

Teducate
the stars
Ted...

Ted Joans WOW sun logo

Harry Nudel:

postscript:
don’t know if the TRIBUTE is the right place for this…but thot i’d pass it on…

In the generic AP obit…& few others…there’s mention that Ted was in the H.C. Portable Beat Reader…but excised from the p.b. of same…

As i remember getting the story from Ted..he was pissed at the let’s leave nameless editors… for using his po…without $$$$ or permission…..no Bread…no Ted…Hy Shore sent a letter to the pub…& Ted was edited out of this beat scene…

In Kansas on the 2nd of long 4 day USA journey across… Greyhound bus trip…Ted is eating his ubiquitous peanutbuttersandwiches…& a vin rouge in paradise…for a few centimes more…..Harry…..

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Harry Nudel

Harry Nudel is a bookseller living in New York.

Author: Harry Nudel Tags: Beat Generation, Harry Nudel, surrealism, Ted Joans, Ted Joans Lives!, tribute Category: Beat Generation, Ted Joans February 2, 2012

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