'BLEEP' LOU REED-A Subway Story About Poetry
Channel: VidHardt
Date: 26/04/2007

Vid Hardt performing at Michele Carlo's storytelling series, IT CAME FROM NEW YORK, April 25, 2007, and disagreeing with Lou Reed's take on WB Yeats' poem, The Second Coming. The night's theme was "SUBWAY STORIES". In 2013 at AWP in Boston, it emerged at a Syracuse University panel he'd pulled this same misreading visiting his alma mater Syracuse U., identifying himself with a "lack of all conviction" as a positive, when Yeats was lamenting amoral inaction, not praising it.