I enjoyed your rambles & digressions, Tad, but I think I'm going to try
to suggest just a few (although there are many more) the way Hal did.
Naked Poems by Phyllis Webb (although in fact continuing & continually,
all her poetry).
Maximus 1 - 20 by Charles Olson (alongside The Distances, & then
everything).
the martyrology, books 1 & 2 by bpNichol (but then again everything,
including the rest of tm).
O Taste & See by Denise Levertov (that one the most, but...).
For Love by Robert Creeley (& ongoing to the end).
Winter Sun & The Dumbfounding by Margaret Avison
The Opening of the Field by Robert Duncan
I'll stop there, but could go one with later & important ones, let
alone the great 'companions' (as Robin Blaser calls them) of the past.
I don't think I've ever stopped finding (or choosing) influences....
Doug
On 29-Jul-07, at 8:19 PM, TheOldMole wrote:
> 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.
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