http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/uutah-phillips-all-used-up/ Norbert Blei's Poetry Dispatch and other Notes from the Underground. “We live to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection,” said Anaїs Nin. Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:08:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/uutah-phillips-all-used-up/#comment-360 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:15:11 +0000 http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/?p=925#comment-360 What I’ll never forget was Utah’s abundant sense of humor. He and Rosalie Sorrels were on the folk circuit together in the early 1970′s and often performed at a funky club near the University of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana campus. Yes, he was polemical and a Wobblie, but he was an incredibly warm, open and funny performer. Still remember some of his tales from that era: “A terrible tragedy this week, folks. Didja hear that Spiro Agnew’s library burned down? Yep, two books were just ruined…and he hadn’t even finished coloring one of them!” And too long to repeat here, but who could ever forget Utah’s extended, colorful rendition of a classic tale from the gandy-dancing repair crew days working for the Northwest railroads, “Moose Turd Pie” (“It’s good, though!”)

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