drinks from the well

the traditional way to read Alex in Movieland is chronologically. but in the kama sutra of my imagination I see it having an index so that everyone cd make his/her own poems out of it.

for example were you to look up a certain bookseller you'd find this poem:

JIM LOWELL: selections from Alex in Movieland

1963
    apr
purchases his first Jargon Books imprint from Jim Lowell at Asphodel Book Shop in The Arcade in Cleveland

1967
    feb
joins R. L. Carothers & Jacob Leed to drive to Western Reserve University to read at a Levy-Lowell Defense Fund benefit with Russell Atkins   Grace Butcher Kent Taylor & Robert Wallace

    may
hears Allen Ginsberg & the Fugs at a Levy-Lowell Defense Fund benefit at Case Institute of Technology

1969
    nov
attends a campus reading by Gary Snyder with an audience that includes Jim Lowell & Kent Taylor

1970
    dec
lunches at Stag Bar with Dean Keller & Jim Lowell

1971
    jul
gossips with Bill Berger at the annual 4th party at Twin Lakes with guests including Pat & Dean Keller   Tessa & Jim Lowell   Julia Waida

    nov
edits the d.a. levy issue of The Serif with Jim Lowell’s checklist & contributions by Gary Snyder & Charles Bukowski

1974
    jan
dines at Pat & Dean Keller's with Eric Mottram & Tessa & Jim Lowell

1976
    apr
visits Jim Lowell & r.j.s. with Paul Metcalf & David Meredith

1989
    jan
receives a call from Jim Lowell who tells him the facts of B. P. Nichols’ death

1990
    feb
visits Jim Lowell's Asphodel Book Shop with Bradley Westbrook

1991
    sep
attends Barbara & Bradley Westbrook’s dinner party for John Taggart with Maggie Anderson   Tom Beckett   Dean Keller & Jim Lowell

1993
    jun
visits Jim Lowell in Burton

2004
    jun
returns home to e-mails from Matthew Wascovich & Tom Beckett informing him of the death of Jim Lowell