'We are the people who are desperate beyond emotion': Lou Reed's lost poetry to be published

Poetry reflecting on nationhood, sex and whiskey, written in 1970 after Lou Reed left the Velvet Underground, is to be published for the first timeâ€œWe are the crystal gaze returned through the density and immensity of a berserk nation.â€ Itâ€™s a line that could have been written by an angry young poet from Trumpâ€™s America, but it was actually penned decades previously, by the bard of New Yorkâ€™s grimy rockâ€™nâ€™roll underbelly: Lou Reed.A collection of th...

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16:16 on March 2 2018

Lou Reed Poetry Collection 'Do Angels Need Haircuts?' Set for Release

Rolling Stone — A collection of unpublished Lou Reed poems will be released this spring as Do Angels Need Haircuts? The book will be accompanied by a 1971 recording of the Velvet Undergr... more info

Lou Reed The Velvet Underground

09:13 on March 2 2018

'We are the people who are desperate beyond emotion': Lou Reed's lost poetry to be published

Guardian Music — Poetry reflecting on nationhood, sex and whiskey, written in 1970 after Lou Reed left the Velvet Underground, is to be published for the first timeâ€œWe are the cryst... more info

Lou Reed The Velvet Underground Laurie Anderson

14:03 on March 2 2018

Lou Reed’s lost poems to be published in new book

NME — Hear the Velvet Underground singer recite two of the poems Lou Reed in 1972 Unseen Lou Reed poems are set to be published in a new book. Titled Do Angels Need Haircu... more info

Lou Reed The Velvet Underground