from booksmeller.
WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
m
AGE?
18
WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR?
don't make me choose...you know i say the standards all the time anyway. stern, tate, levine, clifton, gaitskill, equi, komunyakaa, kafka, celine, huncke, proust, issa, steinbeck, hc andersen, hesse, smart, hughes, sexton, nugent, brautigan, cohen, roth, berriault, tong, pound, seferis, bradbury. the romantics (byron, milton, burns, shelley. marvell! hee hee). all of those spasms that aren't favorite authors just--something was ! hamlet and salome and tristessa, f'rinstance. and damnit, i read chandler and LIKE it. (laugh)
i'll never be able to choose just one person's outburst.
i fell hard for children's literature, and its ornaments even.
WHY IS HE/SHE YOUR FAVORITE?
spasmred.
also lyricism, i'll admit, gets me. i'm a sucker.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOOK?
:/
er. mm, my whole life is just. remembering again and again what i died from.
at first.
the favourite game by leonard cohen
bad behavior and two girls, fat and thin by mary gaitskill
the assumption of the rogues and rascals by elizabeth smart
narcissus and goldmund by hermann hesse
sabbath's theater by philip roth
both live girls and city of boys by ms beth nugent
four archetypes by carl gustav jung; it was my introduction
fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury for reasons i can't say in audible words
shakespeare's hamlet
bartolemo vanzetti's "last speech to the court" and mary wollstonecraft's vindication of the rights of women are my favorite pieces of, oh what do i mean to say? essay writing...more specific, i can't think of the word. g'ah.
so many stories.
as for books of verse, i really like mary barnard's translation of sappho's fragments...hm, what else...i apologize for the eyes in my head by yusef komunyakaa, absences by james tate (!), issa's notebooks, seferis' notebooks, yesdarnitilikeannesexton, mm...cohen's death of a lady's man. ezra pound's personae. federico garcia lorca, i am just beginning to really, really enjoy. : ) plenty more, i always leave things out...frank matagrano's sort-of chapbook before moving platform, back when it was still called subway bride...yeah.
finally brought back to school with me brautigan's the pill versus the springhill mine disaster. extremely glad.
it's not poetry, just my favorite idon'tknowwhatthisisit'severything book, ee cummings' i.
WHAT ABOUT THAT BOOK DID YOU LIKE?
spasmred! again.
WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING?
rereading the herbert huncke reader
delving into bits and pieces from robert anton wilson, mainly from illuminatus but i worry...we'll see, won't we? (anxious) hm.
i want to obtain more orson scott card.
these journals (smiling), as well as so many letters
i am anticipating various zines! tanis' and kore's and helena's too maybe? i am hoppy.
i've been lax lately with reading...it is very strange. sometimes i feel too busy being something to be read than a reader. obviously we are all both, it's just a matter of levels. i feel quite tipped right now. (shrug) for good or ill.
WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER FROM A BOOK?
the first crush i ever had on a book character that i was acutely aware of was...sydney carton from a tale of two cities. i know, i know...dry and dorky me, maybe. but i'll admit it, i liked that book in ninth grade. a lot.
mr feldman smirked at me when he found out. so i said "so you've never had a crush on or been interested in someone you've read about who is a character?" he relented, and even stopped smirking, for my sake.
HAVE YOU READ KAFKA?
mhm! he was my yearlong author project for senior year english, which made me quite happy. i first read him i think freshman year; first i read the obvious one, the metamorphosis, and then "a country doctor." mm. i love his letters and notebooks. which...makes me think what it is i'm really taking from his words. very complicated relationships with gone writers...hrm.
HAVE YOU READ FLANNERY O’CONNOR? YES! oh god. a long history of entanglements. i, uh, a priest i was amazed by tipped me off to her. i read "the enduring chill" first, at his direction.
she was amazing. she had lupus and died...mm, she kept chicken coops and she makes my girlfriend rachel smile.
and for some reason, sometimes penelope fitzgerald reminds me of her (sigh, she passed recently as well), more her persona than her actual style though...i love strong softskinned older women who wear SLACKS and have a slight hint of eccentricity behind a tidy exterior. neat haircuts and prose. i want to know the secrets for growing.
HAVE YOU EVER READ CAMILLE PAGLIA? WHAT'D YOU THINK?
(nod) flamboyancy in the press...when the reaction a writer gets, i'm thinking more of the snide backlash than praise, is more colored than the original writing, mm, ! i love how silly we can be when dressing up with words.
i'm not making sense, oh.
WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE LIKE IN OLD-AGE?
wellll...there are things i dream of appropriating from many pieces of the world. this probably should be an entry by itself. so perhaps it will be, soon. maybe. (energy, i'll need.)
IF YOU WERE TO WRITE A BOOK WHAT WOULD YOU WRITE ABOUT?
a girl with a bad haircut and mothball-smelling sweaters who doesn't let on about -- much of anything that matters -- unless you try and are patient. maybe. maybe.
or a cat with felt for skin. maybe. maybe.
(shrug)
IS THERE A PLACE IN THE WORLD YOU'D LOVE TO READ ABOUT?
s'why i read michael ondaatje and john barth, methinks.
at the end of the survey, it says,
THAT'S IT! YOUR TURN!
WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
m
AGE?
18
WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR?
don't make me choose...you know i say the standards all the time anyway. stern, tate, levine, clifton, gaitskill, equi, komunyakaa, kafka, celine, huncke, proust, issa, steinbeck, hc andersen, hesse, smart, hughes, sexton, nugent, brautigan, cohen, roth, berriault, tong, pound, seferis, bradbury. the romantics (byron, milton, burns, shelley. marvell! hee hee). all of those spasms that aren't favorite authors just--something was ! hamlet and salome and tristessa, f'rinstance. and damnit, i read chandler and LIKE it. (laugh)
i'll never be able to choose just one person's outburst.
i fell hard for children's literature, and its ornaments even.
WHY IS HE/SHE YOUR FAVORITE?
spasmred.
also lyricism, i'll admit, gets me. i'm a sucker.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOOK?
:/
er. mm, my whole life is just. remembering again and again what i died from.
at first.
the favourite game by leonard cohen
bad behavior and two girls, fat and thin by mary gaitskill
the assumption of the rogues and rascals by elizabeth smart
narcissus and goldmund by hermann hesse
sabbath's theater by philip roth
both live girls and city of boys by ms beth nugent
four archetypes by carl gustav jung; it was my introduction
fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury for reasons i can't say in audible words
shakespeare's hamlet
bartolemo vanzetti's "last speech to the court" and mary wollstonecraft's vindication of the rights of women are my favorite pieces of, oh what do i mean to say? essay writing...more specific, i can't think of the word. g'ah.
so many stories.
as for books of verse, i really like mary barnard's translation of sappho's fragments...hm, what else...i apologize for the eyes in my head by yusef komunyakaa, absences by james tate (!), issa's notebooks, seferis' notebooks, yesdarnitilikeannesexton, mm...cohen's death of a lady's man. ezra pound's personae. federico garcia lorca, i am just beginning to really, really enjoy. : ) plenty more, i always leave things out...frank matagrano's sort-of chapbook before moving platform, back when it was still called subway bride...yeah.
finally brought back to school with me brautigan's the pill versus the springhill mine disaster. extremely glad.
it's not poetry, just my favorite idon'tknowwhatthisisit'severything book, ee cummings' i.
WHAT ABOUT THAT BOOK DID YOU LIKE?
spasmred! again.
WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING?
rereading the herbert huncke reader
delving into bits and pieces from robert anton wilson, mainly from illuminatus but i worry...we'll see, won't we? (anxious) hm.
i want to obtain more orson scott card.
these journals (smiling), as well as so many letters
i am anticipating various zines! tanis' and kore's and helena's too maybe? i am hoppy.
i've been lax lately with reading...it is very strange. sometimes i feel too busy being something to be read than a reader. obviously we are all both, it's just a matter of levels. i feel quite tipped right now. (shrug) for good or ill.
WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER FROM A BOOK?
the first crush i ever had on a book character that i was acutely aware of was...sydney carton from a tale of two cities. i know, i know...dry and dorky me, maybe. but i'll admit it, i liked that book in ninth grade. a lot.
mr feldman smirked at me when he found out. so i said "so you've never had a crush on or been interested in someone you've read about who is a character?" he relented, and even stopped smirking, for my sake.
HAVE YOU READ KAFKA?
mhm! he was my yearlong author project for senior year english, which made me quite happy. i first read him i think freshman year; first i read the obvious one, the metamorphosis, and then "a country doctor." mm. i love his letters and notebooks. which...makes me think what it is i'm really taking from his words. very complicated relationships with gone writers...hrm.
HAVE YOU READ FLANNERY O’CONNOR? YES! oh god. a long history of entanglements. i, uh, a priest i was amazed by tipped me off to her. i read "the enduring chill" first, at his direction.
she was amazing. she had lupus and died...mm, she kept chicken coops and she makes my girlfriend rachel smile.
and for some reason, sometimes penelope fitzgerald reminds me of her (sigh, she passed recently as well), more her persona than her actual style though...i love strong softskinned older women who wear SLACKS and have a slight hint of eccentricity behind a tidy exterior. neat haircuts and prose. i want to know the secrets for growing.
HAVE YOU EVER READ CAMILLE PAGLIA? WHAT'D YOU THINK?
(nod) flamboyancy in the press...when the reaction a writer gets, i'm thinking more of the snide backlash than praise, is more colored than the original writing, mm, ! i love how silly we can be when dressing up with words.
i'm not making sense, oh.
WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE LIKE IN OLD-AGE?
wellll...there are things i dream of appropriating from many pieces of the world. this probably should be an entry by itself. so perhaps it will be, soon. maybe. (energy, i'll need.)
IF YOU WERE TO WRITE A BOOK WHAT WOULD YOU WRITE ABOUT?
a girl with a bad haircut and mothball-smelling sweaters who doesn't let on about -- much of anything that matters -- unless you try and are patient. maybe. maybe.
or a cat with felt for skin. maybe. maybe.
(shrug)
IS THERE A PLACE IN THE WORLD YOU'D LOVE TO READ ABOUT?
s'why i read michael ondaatje and john barth, methinks.
at the end of the survey, it says,
THAT'S IT! YOUR TURN!