i saw Lorri Jackson and Lydia Lunch read poetry at Hothouse on Milkwaukee Ave. in Chicago c. 1990 or so + i have never forgotten her. Lorri impacted me so much as a writer that i am hoping to build this fan site + expose others to her work. Please let me know if you have info to add. i will credit everything.......
.....this is what i know (+ will improve upon as i learn more, so bear with me): Lorri Jackson was an "army brat" from Kentucky. she was beautifully, heavily, gorgeously tattooed up and down. she wrote amazing poetry. she died too young via heroin.....
......a friend of hers wrote this about Lorri on www.conceptualink.blog-city.com, "jackson would have been a diva of the underground because she was one of those people who craved the limelight --and deservedly so. she was an immensely fucking vital being with talent out wahzoo and not just as a writer/poet. she was an artist, writer, musician ... best at writing, to be sure ... secondly musicianship ... thirdly at art, but this was only because that was her prioritization; her delegation of where she wanted to concentrate her energy.".......
......from (her sister's?) aol members site, "She had several poems published in Chiron Review, as well as similar publications. She also completed three books, New Logic for New Sores, My Mouth is a Hole in My Face, and Scat (published four years after her death by Oyster Publication). She had poems included in Editor's Choice III, edited by Morty Sklar and A New Geography of Poets by the University of Arkansas Press. Her life was looking up, she was becoming an established poet performing with the likes of Jim Carroll and Lydia Lunch. Her life was full of promise when she succumbed to an addiction that took her life on October 9th, 1990, at the age of 28."......
I'd love to get more people into Lorri's work, and invite you to please friend me at my own page (Rachellie- the top page here). when it asks you for my name, it's Rachel Cunningham. thanks all.
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