the "jane dark" question everyone but me already knows the answer to...

Joshua Clover's poetry, C/D?
― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 24 November 2002 bookmarkflaglink

Died yesterday - reading his poetry now..

there are so many poems to
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— Sasha Frere-Jones (@sashafrerejones) April 28, 2025

RIP Joshua Clover

There's a long intro part here, but Clover eventually starts talking about Jonathan Richman's song "Roadrunner"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6qc8EqN_XI

The "Roadrunner" book was a few universes away from how I hear the song ("Where are you getting all this from? Not the song..."), but in the end, it did come together for me: a celebration of/accidental eulogy for an economic freedom teenagers would never again have.

He delivered a paper at the 2008 EMP Pop Conference the nexus of "Roadrunner" and M.I.A.'s "Bird Flu" that remains one of the most thrilling live experiences of my life. I loved his Jane Dark reviews in SPIN.

Do we know what he died of?

In 2019 he got hit by a truck while bicycle riding. I read someone guess that maybe he had longstanding health issues from that, but no offical statement has been issued.

Forgot this was online: Josh/Jane's reviews from Radio On #9.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991007162359/http://www.jetcity.com/%7Ezapruder/jane.htm

more discussion in rolling obit thread on ILE

Quesion about Josh Clover in "Ask Greil" today:

This is hard to address. Joshua was a longtime friend whose mother (Carol Clover, author of Men, Women, and Chain Saws) I’ve known even longer. We worked together and argued. I knew his health was tricky for a long time but I was shocked by his sudden death. I found myself crying when told my wife what I’d just seen in an email. His work (whether it’s his book-on-a-single Roadrunner or his poetry collection The Totality for Kids or his outrageous fanzine Sugarhigh written under the name Jane Dark) is dynamic, unafraid, and wicked, but I find myself thinking of his sardonic smile and his big red and yellow tattoo on his right arm.

oh! i didnt realise carol clover was his mom