Artist description Collected works of poetry 1960-present.

Music Style Spoken Word / Poetry

Musical Influences William Faulkner, Ray Bradbury, John Cheever, Alan Ginsberg

Similar Artists William Faulkner, Ray Bradbury, John Cheever, Alan Ginsberg

Artist History (The work tells of my history.)

Group Members R. Ed. Herring (Ralph Edward Herring)

Instruments IBM Selectrix typewriter, voice.

Albums Selected Readings from "Pruning to Shape," Vol 1.

Press Reviews John Glennon of Kampala, Africa writes of R.ed.'s verse in Pruning to Shape 1960-1997: "America’s true voice resonates in these poems. Not Whitman, not Frost: tighter in line than the former, more angst in the imagery than the latter. His poem 'The Exception' is one of my favorite poems in the English language. Seamus Heaney in his Irish brogue would lose in a slam to it...I cannot think of California or Missouri without thinking of the truer lines of R.ed.'s poems."

Location San Francisco, CA - USA

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