ANN
WILSON
life-time but shell leave a clue to
of the tragic generation spoken
the next one after her like they windows and even made the of by Yeats, "Those who are
generated for tragedy. Such
Saints as Lydwine of Schiedan
all, she doesn't separate her side and go around the car to did really cure disease by taking
from her put the change in at the toll it upidered the consequence
plastic in her three broken car
all have before her. The I Ching door work so Jill would no
gives her the grandest clues of longer have to get out the other
it upon themselves. As disease
artistic destinv. It's not art we
know, it's THE GREAT booths say, "You again," as she of Sin, to take it upon
SEARCH
Jill is old fashioned, she still masking-taped car
believes in love and marriage.
What motivates her out of bed the Bowery just as holy as the
everyday around noon is the holy men in India. Jill makes me to accept the thought of
thought that she might find her people feel alive, she gives back VICTIMAGE in many complex
ALICE B. TOKLAS. She's not at their destiny, and because of the
present interested in spiritual almost constant upheaval of her !
detachment or Christian. own life, she has a marvelouswere such skillful poets that
Buddist, Zen monasieries, not gallows humor which uns even the Druids were obliged to
Simone Wiel for her. She is through her conversation and
BOTTICELLI before Savonarola infects people with her intimacy
and nowers stream out of eirls excitement and courage Jill their poetry in a secret Alphabet
mouths and from their clitoris makes you want to go on with it
She has this illusion or fantasy anyway
of a castle in Europe where she
and her matewillintrodcmaonshiare spectrumO THEM USING THAT
youne to the riogente psabo e n
nd dstple of the phone day g
makinga sort otgd SAPH0 gcondolingnd
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reality can be fantasy and sFollow the lines with your
fantasy can be reality Ishe to the ar ofLes Levine with
can't get a woman she'll take a Gregory Batteock asher
nan in certain instances, like the
night she slept with Orlovsky Teeny Duchamp, David Bourdon
with Ginsberg in the next room and John De Menil along with a
on the phone. Jill's constant cast of thousands have been her)
booth. All the men at the toll
goes by in her plastic and themselves was to copy Christ.
All my proof that mind nows
into minds and that we cannot
separate mind and body, drives
She considers the Bums one
forms."
Jill is a poet, in Ireland there
go to them for the spells they
,needed, but they had to hide
because the Church tried to
erase their primitive truth. but
er frieodshinsand they survived and JILL IS ONE
ALPHARET
Shewritesamaeke
ancient Celieab crved wilh
pirals The spirals redouble
ange from the divinity of Alper
finger from outside to inside and
when you reach the center there
is the head of another spiral
coiled in the reverse direction to
take you out of the maze again
Ann Wilson and children Photo By Les Levine
supreme counter jester Sheindy,
She sits reading five or six
books at once, Tom Wolfe
Jill Johnston SEE ALSO
Ceorge Sand
Music and rhythm Sappho, Rimbaud, Baudelaire,
syncopated Rag-Time alternated
with long tearful passages from legends. Whitehead, Loves Body
Brahms in his heavier moments
Style, Baroque Rococo.
If you are what you eat, Jill
Johnston is a bottle of
Mayonaise. Around her neck she
wears a tin can lid, was Beer or book is always in her lap, and
Hunt's tomato juice, with keys
to her heart dangling from a boy
scout woven plastic raffia knot the book Other people write inwith all the waves hapoening drawing her line of thought perception of a change, like
green and white, don't stare at it the book too, Jill scans the
too long or vou wdt ionseents and dialogue of her life ILL JOHNSTON IS ABOUT
of love physical and spiritual
Religion Dionysian as
interpreted from Sappho's point ongoing lines, one of her lines is
of view, but definitely in the line insanity in general and her own alone because she is really in hours, and in frogs for four its survival of itself She gave up
of Greek civilization
Jill writes about life and death
of each moment
because, he being permitted to
say what he pleased, was never
templed to pretend that we can
linger between spirit and sense.
How often had I heard men of
my time talk of the meeting of
Donne
tracts on insanity, Indian search for the comforts of love good friends and spiritual
and her constant state of advisors She is noted for crisis
orphanage from it are lessons in situations and Steve Paxton and
the art of dispair and sorrow
She writes best when she is high hauled her off to the loony bin.
and she is high when she is in Sometimes she drops them all
love, Jill has another fantasy to for such like concerns but she
get to the final perfect state of generally forgives and forgets.spirit and sense, yet there is no
INSANITY and maintain herself Viva once gave her a G-string.
there-her vibrations in contact
by Norman O Brown, and
Robert Rausehenberg onoe
writes quotes fhom them in her
little black book with her pen
held backw ards or
backwards or both. The black
writing
meeting but only change upon
t Jill thus touches on all life styles the instant, and it's by the
whoever is on the phone or
sitting across from her eoes into
sudden "Blacking out" of the
around her. Because essentially through them, and puts it all in
ereates its most violent
TOTAL PERCEPTION OF THE thinking
MOMENT When she is shaky
she can't po out on Canal St
for colours and happenings that
pertain to the direction of her
She writes me today,"In
spiders coitus may last for seven violence done to the spirit and
sensation, Jill Johnston is about
contaci with all the messagesweeks
insanity in particular. Fact: that
an idea of a love and now has no
occurs in many
Jll is in the grand tradition she claimed APOLLINAREacoming in from truck drivers and the sexes union of her loft and ran to Europe after
her father and made a detailed bums and trapped jewelery parasites such that for example place to live. Her clothes were
of high intimate chroniclers
Madame Recamier with a beat geneology relating herself to the
up plastic windowed car instead
of a sofa, holding Salon or
Salome or Saloon wherever she
happens to land or just be They MURDER you in those
leaving too.
She is in the tradition of
amorous revelation De Sade, and among us hasn't been? She chivalric love is but one to
the male remains throughout life stolen, her car was stolen, she
in the gullet or the uterus of the ran into a truck drunk with
another car, she sereams, she
erys and she writes in that little
merchants in a permanent state
QUEEN of ENGLAND and of paranoia about their
APOLLINARE during one of diamonds, and she receives all female."
her insanity trips. She says,
Jill tries to solve the mystery
these waves-hence the need for
a castle with drawbridges. But, of separation, before the black book about all of it. Jill is
m of herself
she is talking about the quest for amoeba. When you think of the supreme vieti
hospitals, I was MURDERED
two times in Bellevue," Who
the grail and the tradition of evolution backwards you return striving against all odds for the
the source, to the center, for any total contact, for
hermaphroditic state, before the a moment of life beyond
comes in touch with her self IN attribute.
sanity as coming into your
sanity like the Shamans and she has two children. A boy nothing there was nothing
American Indian Visions, eleven and a girl ten. My picture
revolution, Proust.
upon
separation of creation from separation.
detailed
So metimes you come
Dickens LITTLE DORRET
orphaned in the snow and
freezing to death without aBLACK ELK SPEAKS, during dance a wild crazy horse dance.hearts that Christianity as
parent to her name or a roof these journeys to the ordinary
over her head, but some twist of
fortune always puts her inwalls And I certainly do think crayons and huge drawing paper
another
She is also the Madonna and
"Why are these strange souls
born everywhere today? With
She will drink too much and
is of Jill standing at the table
Christmas morning wrapping
dayglo paint and iridescent knees angled It she can satisf,? Why should we believe
hair down, shoulders swinging, shep:d by history cannot
intimidate or conquest anyone that religion can never bring
E is her father pads for her children because she will force them to perform round its antitheses? Is it true
they give her their pictures and that our air is disturbed, as
with her At the great
mother, and a VIRGIN BIRTH she carries them around, and RESTORATION COMEDY Mallarme said, by the trembling
that is the story of a marriage gatherings of our time like of the veil of the temple, or that
of seeing her HENRT'S OPENING at the our whole age is seeking to bring
scene.
Little Orphan Annie before
Daddy Warbucks. Hair flying.
boots zipped, neon tie flashing.
carrying on her communication
at that-
Jill pieces her writing and a leaving and
together like a collage, she is like children once a week. She carries MET. She's an embarrassment to for a
a jeweler at work on a crown of that and her talisman tin in a bar, Do you feel cannibalism at dinner, like three 1
Jill writes me, "Discused
them She will proposition a gih
o her. by phone, car. plane, and
E.S.P. out
UNIVERSE
IT WAS No ACCIDENT
THAT THE CRUSADER'S
inside her
can lid she wears around her
ADVENTUROUS tonight?" and
make love then for seven hours
stranded in Antaretica and the
one dying implored the other
like a spider in an eternal two not to kill him but to let
hysteria to break through sorrow him die before eating him AND
to break through the SAID IMAGINE SITTING
to ZAP THE By zantine complexity, she sets
her quotes and lines into her
frame of reference. The Queen is neck was made for her by her
her own jeweler. She is on a son. She sets up friendly
v
SWORD WAS ALSO A CROSS treasure hunt finding little bits hostilities with any and all
AT ONCE THE MEANS OF A
PHYSICAL AND SYMBOL OF
SPIRITUAL VICTORY
matives she encounters. She met
ef paper with words on them
that lead her on to the next clue.
The hunt wont be over in her Hampshire who set a piece of to break through sorrow. Jill is
a saint ih a as station in New separation in living. Jill is trying WATCHING VOUR IMMINENT
CONSUMERS.
