<div><b>?All the books about me are bullshit except Jeremy’s.” ?Lou Reed </b><br> <br> Lou Reed influenced generations of copyists that took note of his outlaw status, ambiguous sexual orientation characterized by his seventies relation­ship with the transvestite Rachel, his implacable mystique, and his cool and defiant attitude as the narrator of subcultures.<br> <br> First published in Britain in 1994 and now available for the first time in America, <i>Waiting for the Man, </i>focuses on Lou Reed as rock’s principal literary avatar, paying special attention to his con­troversial lyrics and prototypical garage sound. Author Jeremy Reed (no relation) is a fellow poet? one praised by J. G. Ballard as ?the most original poet writing today” and by Bjork as ?the most beau­tiful outrageous poet in the world”?and thus he examines Lou Reed’s career through an entirely dif­ferent lens than other rock biographies. Taking in the sweep of Reed’s career from Velvet Underground to the variants of forty years of resistant solo pio­neering, <i>Waiting For the Man </i>accesses the man and his music, with an extraordinary perception and attention to detail.<br></div>