I started writing on books that have influenced me, but it wandered way
off topic, and I ended up putting it on my blog instead. So it's there,
if anyone's really looking for a way to waste a few minutes.
Halvard Johnson wrote:
> I'll shoot for five here, Andrew, with minimal comments:
>
> 1. Robert Creeley, *For Love*
> This one came out right around the time I first heard Creeley
> read in public, an event that jumpstarted my life in poetry.
>
> 2. William Carlos Williams
> No particular book, so let's say the oeuvre--again especially
> when I was beginning.
>
> 3. John Ashbery
> Again no particular book, but *Household Days* hit me early
> and hard.
>
> 4. Gertrude Stein
> Start anywhere and read in any direction.
>
> 5. Gerard Deniz
> Particularly the selected poems translated by Monica de la
> Torre. A recent love.
>
> Hal
>
> "Then there are a number of things
> one googles or does not google."
>
> after Gertrude Stein
>
> Halvard Johnson
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
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>
>
>
> On Jul 28, 2007, at 10:45 PM, andrew burke wrote:
>
>> Just a few days ago, Ron Silliman posted a comment about a book
>> comprised of lists and comments by poets - as per the following:
>>
>> (QUOTE) 'When, in editing the first volume of Poet's Bookshelf, Peter
>> Davis got some 81 poets to respond to his request for a list of
>>
>> 5-10 books that have been most "essential" to you, as a poet
>>
>> and asked his respondents further to "Please write some comments about
>> your list," he got an awesomely, if predictably, wide range of
>> reactions.' (END QUOTE)
>>
>> I would be very interested in hearing from p'etcers on their lists of
>> "essential books" - hopefully with comments. I'm still thinking about
>> mine - the list seems to change daily >g< but some remain stable. I'll
>> post my Sunday list this evening.
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew
>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>> http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
>
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Tad Richards
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