'Selected Poems (& Notebook Quotes)' - Gerard Manley Hopkins
'American Poetry 1945 to 19??' Anthology - ed. Donald M. Allen
'On the Road' - Jack Kerouac
'Myths & Texts' - Gary Snyder
'Lunch Poems' - Frank O'hara
'Gasoline' - Gregory Corso
'The Cantos' - Ezra Pound
'Collected Poems' -William Carlos Williams
'Kora in Hell' - WCW
'Tribute to Jack Johnson' - Miles Davis
'Bitches Brew' - Miles Davs
'Maximus Poems' - Charles Olson
'Coming Through Slaughter' - Michael Ondaatje
'The Collected Works of Billy the Kid' - Ondaatje
... and Tom Waits of 'Small Change' (or was it called 'Cheap
Tricks'?), 'Bone Machine' ... and Dylan early folk, middle electric
and latest wit and wisdom ...
I come out of a very conservative Irish Catholic background, so the
Beats were exciting to me and changed my thinking when I was a
teenager, hence On The Road got me out of my comfort zone in Perth
and hitchhiking to Sydney, working in factories, a rubbish tip, etc.
Big influence. I wrote about the people I met in an imagistic way
learnt from WCW mainly. Always loved jazz (from my brother's Benny
Goodman and Gene Krupa records, etc) so followed Miles from the
earliest, and was bowled over by 'Tribute'. Still am.
Everyday cadences came a long way from Hopkins to O'Hara - and I heard
the people's voices in The Maximus Poems. I'm still there, although I
loved the process WCW went through to create Kora In Hell. I enjoy a
strand of mystery and surprise in my reading and listening ... That
may be the common thred.
Andrew
On 29/07/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> meant to include Joni Mitchell too
>
> On 29/07/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > in fact I'd say that Nick Cave & Tom Waits have more to tell me about
> > writing poetry than most novelists, or even most poets
> >
> > KS
> >
Andrew
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