Where Are You, Walter Lowenfels?

Major Jacksonan’s line about a community of readers/believers (what poets want) reminded me of a line from Walter Lowenfels’ little book, The Revolution Is To Be Human. I quote this line often enough to make it a credo:

One reader is a miracle. Two readers are a movement.

So I went looking for an Internet image of Walter Lowenfels just now and found very little about him. There is a Wikipedia page with almost nothing on it. The first Google search result points to Washington University Libraries, which provides a decent short biography along with documentation on their collection of Lowenfels papers related to the protest anthology Where is Vietnam? Bloggers make it into the top 10 Google searchs with Walter Lowenfels posts by A Burning Patience and Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company, a Henry Miller blog.

Search for Jabberwhorl Cronstadt, the fictional name Henry Miller gave to his portrait of Lowenfels in Black Spring, and the top 10 reveals a scary number of myspace pages. Maybe a punk band adopted the name. Whatever you do, don’t click on one of these links unless you’re prepared to hear some awful onomatopoeic music inspired by Jabberwhorl Cronstadt! Could there be a punk band called Edgar Varese?