FIRE TO FIRE: New & Selected Poems
Forthcoming from HarperCollins in April 2008
I'm a poet and memoirist, the author of seven books of poems and four volumes of nonfiction prose. My new book, Dog Years, appeared from HarperCollins in March of 2007 -- and I'm delighted that it's in its seventh printing.
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"We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills the space between us with the blue of longing. I wonder sometimes whether with a slight adjustment of perspective it could be cherished as a sensation on its own terms, since it is as inherent to the human condition as blue is to distance? If you can look across the distance without wanting to close it up, if you can own your longing in the same way that you own the beauty of that blue that can never be possessed? For something of this longing will, like the blue of distance, only be relocated, not assuaged, by acquisition and arrival, just as the mountains cease to be blue when you arrive among them and the blue instead tints the next beyond." Rebecca Solnit, The Art of Getting Lost
David Wojnarowicz, Evan S. Connell, Mahalia Jackson, Langston Hughes, Milton Avery,
Luis Baragan, Fairfield Porter, Willem deKooning, Joan Mitchell. Lucien Freud, Marianne Faithful, Joni Mitchell
Van Morrison, Nick Drake, Marianne Faithful, Pergolesi, Antony and the Johnsons, Chet Baker, Couperin, Mozart, David Bowie, Poulenc, Judy Garland, Aretha, The Velvet Underground; Elvis Costello, Dylan, Miles Davis, Donovan; CeCe Peniston; Loleatta Holloway, Ravel, Nina Simone; Billie Holiday; Django Reinhardt; Joni Mitchell; Laura Nyro; The Mamas and the Papas; Style Council; Culture Club, Candi Staton, Bitch & Animal, Jimmy Sommerville, Sylvester, Handel; Kate Bush; Bjork; John Legend , Jennifer Hudson
La Belle et la Bete; La Strada; Nights of Cabiria; Juliet of the Spirits; Wings of Desire; Mulholland Drive; Sunset Boulevard; Volver; All About My Mother; The Flower of My Secret; Talk to Her; Bad Education; Eyes Without a Face; Mildred Pierce; Bride of Frankenstein; Gods and Monsters; In the Mood for Love; Grizzly Man; Aguirre: Wrath of God; Manhattan; The Living End; Safe; Far from Heaven; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Big Love, that's it.
Walt Whitman, Constantin Cavafy, Marcel Proust, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hart Crane, Federico Garcia-Lorca, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, May Swenson, W.C.Williams, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers, Robert Duncan, Ronald Johnson, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, James Wright, Pablo Neruda, Kenneth Patchen, Nazim Hikmet, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, James Merrill, James L. White, Brenda Hillman, Alice Fulton, Anne Carson, Lucie Brock-Broido, Frank Bidart, Louise Gluck, Lynda Hull, Herbert Morris, Stanley Kunitz, Marie Howe, Brenda Shaughnessy, Galway Kinnell, C.K. Williams, Jean Valentine
Caravaggio, Henry Darger