I actually hadn't known much about the extent of Buckley's flat-out, unapologetic racism until, say the last fifteen years or so. I'd only watch his show if he had someone like James Baldwin on. and that show he did with Allen Ginsberg in which Allen read his fabulous "Wales Visitation" was something everybody should see. the poem sure s…
I actually hadn't known much about the extent of Buckley's flat-out, unapologetic racism until, say the last fifteen years or so. I'd only watch his show if he had someone like James Baldwin on. and that show he did with Allen Ginsberg in which Allen read his fabulous "Wales Visitation" was something everybody should see. the poem sure shut Buckley up. in fact, it knocked him out.
but I never found anything "reasonable" about any part of the whole Buckley enterprise.
one oddball fact is that when Murray Kempton put his big anthology together, he dedicated it to Buckley who had, Kempton said, a "gift for friendship." go figure.
I actually hadn't known much about the extent of Buckley's flat-out, unapologetic racism until, say the last fifteen years or so. I'd only watch his show if he had someone like James Baldwin on. and that show he did with Allen Ginsberg in which Allen read his fabulous "Wales Visitation" was something everybody should see. the poem sure shut Buckley up. in fact, it knocked him out.
but I never found anything "reasonable" about any part of the whole Buckley enterprise.
one oddball fact is that when Murray Kempton put his big anthology together, he dedicated it to Buckley who had, Kempton said, a "gift for friendship." go figure.