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so much:
people with personal manifestos
shakespeare
all of the poets on the bookshelf in front of my face right now (left to right): Ron Silliman, Lyn Heijinian, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Marina Tsvetaeva, , Mina Loy, Robert Kelly, Andre Breton, Jackson MacLow, Clark Coolidge, Michael Palmer, Charles Bernstein, Robert Creely, Charles Olson, Walter Abish, Martine Bellen, Peter Gizzi, Jorie Graham, Ann Lauterbach, Joan Retallack, Hirata Toshiko, Rae Armantrout, Tan Lin, Basil Bunting, George Oppen, William Carlos Williams, Maureen Owen, Barbara Guest, Stéphane Mallarmé, Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky, William Shakespeare, Edward Dorn, Peter Cole, H.D., Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Fanny Howe, Emily Dickenson, Joseph Massey, Federico Garcia Lorca, Joseph Ceravolo, Jennifer Moxley, David Shapiro, Kenneth Koch, Jimmy Shuyler, Frank O'Hara, John Ashberry, Rachel Blau Duplessis, J.H. Prynne, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Peter Riley, Forrest Gander, Larry Eigner, David Chaloner, Andrew Crozier.
Beautiful light.
Religion.
Real thinkers - George Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Theodore Adorno, Noam Chomsky, Karl Marx, Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Ferdinand Saussure.
Travelling in Europe.
Islamic Art.
Sound scapes.
Free improv.
Cello music.
Mark Rothko.
Picasso.
Jean Luc Godard.
Sonic Youth.
Language.
The potential of the species.