“I’ve always hated authority,” the punk-rock legend Richard Hell says. Read a new interview on mortality, drugs, and Hell’s latest book of poetry.
Oh, God, it’s so embarrassing to look back on. I was doing a lot of speed, too, at that time, and it was just—I didn’t have a clue how to write the kind of stuff I thought that I was writing. [The story of those years of your life is recounted in your fantastic memoir, “I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp,” which you published in 2013. You seem to have somehow remembered and retained a lot from that time.
In the autobiography, and I know that this put some people off, I wanted to say things that people, because they have good manners, don’t usually say about what they’re actually experiencing. Some people called me misogynist, and said, How come you gotta talk about the breasts of every girl you ever met? But I was talking about the breasts because I noticed the breasts, and I think anyone would.
Since the eighties, you’ve been publishing a lot of cultural criticism, and, in the late nineties, you also began to write steadily about art. How did that come about? You stopped publishing poetry in an organized way in the early seventies, but were you always continuing to write it? Isn’t that what writing is, though, in a way? Especially if you’re writing memoir or even poetry that’s close to the bone?
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