Books : Waltzing With The Captain: Remembering Richard Brautigan
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by: Greg Keeler
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.99786
EAN: 9780931659935
ISBN: 0931659930
Label: Limberlost Pr
Manufacturer: Limberlost Pr
Number Of Pages: 167
Publication Date: April 30, 2004
Publisher: Limberlost Pr
Sales Rank: 1320079
Studio: Limberlost Pr
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Rating: - Poets are not Sissies
I knew the ending, but I didn't know what came before in Richard's life. Thanks to Greg Keeler for sharing a snapshot in time of the larger-than-life poet who wrote poems that could drop you to your knees.
The book gives no clues, but it is all we have left of Richard to try to understand and celebrate his life. After finishing the book, I went back and re-read some of my Brautigan books. I love them as much now as before.
Thank you Greg for writing this book.
Rating: - Insight into the everyday Richard
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Keeler's Richard Brautigan is very different from the man I met and wrote about in:
BRAUTIGAN, RICHARD, A PILGRIMAGE, AUGUST 1982. ISBN 1881417107. Most people are different with strangers they've just met, but my quiet Richard seemed to be self-destructing at the time I met him.
Keeler's Richard, on the other hand lived ironically, wildly and self-indulgently. (Reading Keeler I can't believe my luck that Richard did not throw me out.) And because Keeler ... Read More
Rating:  - Loving Study Of A Maniac
What's "waltzing" got to do with it? The memoir's title will remind some readers of Theodore Roethke's poem about the son "waltzing" with his father, but Keeler, a long time friend of Richard Brautigan, means it metaphorically, although the two men were so close that sometimes Keeler wondered whether Brautigan was perhaps coming on to him sexually, for some of his pranks were sexually ambiguous, to the point of joining Keeler on a bed and asking him, what should we do next? There were some stolen ... Read More
Rating: - THANK YOU FOR THIS PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
Any one who loves Richard Brautigan's novels and far out poetry will appreciate the personal perspective share by the author. The book is easy to read and is a wonderful tribute to an unusual man who, for reasons unknown, took his own life 20 years ago. If only others of us who write would be so remembered.
Rating: - An inside view of friendship with Brautigan
Greg Keeler today is an accomplished musician, poet, writer, and teacher of English at Montana State University. But he was a still-wet-behind-the-ears transplant from Oklahoma when he first met Richard Brautigan in 1978. Brautigan was a best selling author, world traveler, and counter culture legend-who counted among his friends John Lennon, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jimmy Buffet, Rip Torn, and Francis Ford Coppola. For reasons Keeler can't explain, Brautigan took a liking to him and thereby hangs ... Read More
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