Lice

A petite Smithposium

This morning I read (on Substack Poetic Outlaws) the poem Advice to a Young Writer by Henry Miller. He suggests one reads The Palm Wine Drunkard by the Nigerian author Amos Tutuola. In the early seventies this obscure and transporting book was hard to find, and at the time the only people I knew who read it were William Burroughs and Tom Verlaine. It’s…