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Mike Tyler is a non-academic, post-beat American poet.〔The Beats are Back, New York Magazine, May 3, 1993.〕 He first became known during the 1990s poetry revival centered on the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City.〔Café Society: The New Guerrilla Poets Act Out at the Nuyorican Poets Café, The Village Voice, March 24, 1992〕 He has been dubbed the “most dangerous poet in America” because he once broke an arm while doing a reading.〔The Observer, Sunday August 29, 1994〕 Tyler was born in Greenwich Village. His paternal grandfather is the educator Ralph W. Tyler, Sr. He attended Stuyvesant High School and was a student of the writer Frank McCourt. He dropped out.〔A Nuyorican State of Mind, Downtown Poets Hit the Road, Voice Literary Supplement, April 1994〕 From 1994 to 2002 he was the poet-in-residence at the artist decorated Carlton Arms Hotel in New York City living in a room with a felt rhino.〔Nuyorican Poets Amplify the Word, The Morning Call, November 1994〕 A plaque (cardboard) celebrating his stay currently hangs on the door of the room. His book, “From Colorado to Georgia” is available in the rooms of the hotel.〔("Mike Tyler - Mike Tyler’s From Colorado to Georgia" ) Retrieved on 2009-05-25〕 He has been cited as an influence on the musician Beck.〔Spin Magazine, July 1994〕 The artist Banksy has stenciled Tyler’s line “only the ridiculous survive” outside of London’s Paddington Station.〔 Retrieved on 2009-05-25〕 He recreated the James Brown Hardest Working Man in Show Business Routine while doing a poetry reading.〔A Nuyorican State of Mind, Downtown Poets Hit the Road, Voice Literary Supplement, April 1994〕 Noted UK Journalist AA Gill in the London Sunday Times was bemused by a Mike Tyler performance at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA): “He had not endeared himself to us. I mean this is the ICA, it’s London, this audience is so cool the bar doesn’t even bother stocking ice. And there’s this geezer claiming to be a poet, I mean he hasn’t even got sunglasses on. Anyway he starts whining his poem, which is sort of Ezra Pound out of Beavis and Butt-Head ...” Gill went on to quote a short Mike Tyler poem in full. ''Just before/the end of the world/somebody said/to somebody else/”Hey, look, it’s not like it’s the end of the world”''.〔Any rhyme or reason?, The London Sunday Times, September 11, 1994〕 The most infamous act of Tyler’s career occurred on Friday November 30, 1992. Dying to read a poem at the Nuyorican Poets Café but with a long line ahead of him, Tyler took his poem outside to 3rd Street. He used the flatbed of a truck for a stage and paced and prowled. He didn’t recite the poem, he exorcised it. He sprung to the top of a wire fence, then dived to the sidewalk landing on his left arm. Which broke at the elbow.〔Café Society: The New Guerrilla Poets Act Out at the Nuyorican Poets Café, The Village Voice, March 24, 1992〕 == Sources == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Tyler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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