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About Me

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My Interests

alternative healing, film, art, art, art, family, community, love (in the right and wrong places)

I'd like to meet:

Meredith Monk, Lil' Kim, Dalai Lama, Dolly Parton, George W. Bush

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Music:

Nina Simone, Bob Marley Johnny Cash, Tracy Chapman, Aretha Franklin, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Sam Cooke, Aphex Twin, Wilco, Mary J. Blige, Damian Marley, Meredith Monk, Krishna Das, Willie Nelson, Dinah Washington, Koko Taylor

Movies:

Clueless, The Color Purple, The Devil's Advocate, Exit to Eden, The Squid and the Whale, The Neverending Story, MirrorMask, Boyz in the Hood, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Dancer in the Dark, Raising Arizona, Breaking the Waves (anything by Lars von Trier), Lean on Me, Duma, The Glass Menagerie, Sophie's Choice

Television:

My Sweet Sixteen, The Swan, Anything on the Food Network, the Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Strangers with Candy, the jewelry and makeup programs on QVC, The Office, Crankyankers

Books:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the Lovely Bones, Are You My Mother?, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, The Whore's Child, anything by David Sedaris, Catcher in the Rye, On the Beach

Heroes:

Dolly Parton, My mother, Mohatma Ghandi, Bob Marley, Buddha Sakyamuni, Scott Ritter, Amy Goodman, Dr. Ruth, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Tammy Faye Baker, Dr. Jane Goodall, Madonna, Maya Angelou, Anne Waldman, Pema Chodron, Lauryn Hill

My Blog

New poetry

The Exchange Looky, looky this one with beads Everything you need This one an other country's ghost Dreams Cardamom trade, ancient lightning seared saffron tree Indivisible Backbay b...
Posted by Max of the North Country on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:53:00 PST

new poetry

Peach's Song Good, my skin now is pressed moss old lady over-ripe touch My, good, my posture frigid-spine gone lightning white and stone sacrum to nape shaved slate scape Lovely stil...
Posted by Max of the North Country on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:08:00 PST

The Lonely Grave of Henry Dumbrowsky

The Lonely Grave of Henry Dumbrowsky ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> In the pictures and the tv They always show it like This: the character, obsessed ...
Posted by Max of the North Country on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:24:00 PST

Poem for my father's second wedding

Here are two By a ragged, craggy lip Of a lake-vast Crystal, foreign to both. The woman teeters Before the body, as if It were glass-faced and Would hold the slender Weight of one bold woman B...
Posted by Max of the North Country on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:53:00 PST

Dharmaraja--devotional poem

Dharmaraja When I open my eyes Dharmaraja Dharmaraja I am the sweet American Baby Boy Dharmaraja This means when You fold her hands I see your life in Pictures All-seeing Dharmaraja W...
Posted by Max of the North Country on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:56:00 PST

Song that I wrote for Goodbye Birdy (the film in which I am starring)

Sleeping Eye Who is the boy who is everywhere?- The change in the couch, The soap in your hair Who is the boy who never cared? That's me, that's me They call me the Prince of the new-lai...
Posted by Max of the North Country on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:32:00 PST

Poem from Little Lives\Lonely Graves series

The Lonely Grave of Dick Blair The saddest sight in all Of Chataqua County That year Was Jason Blair Bent over his daddy's Freshly turned Mound of earth And not because A son had...
Posted by Max of the North Country on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:02:00 PST

Brand-spanking-new poem!

The Lonely Grave of Mother Tagliaterri I imagine you at 120 sweeping The stone with your feet Like a lamb in dirt Riding...
Posted by Max of the North Country on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:03:00 PST

Poem from the Little Lives/Lonely Graves series

The little life of June Baijan for Liz Independence day All the canoes and Kayaks Cached on the sand Lake lipping the Tipping edges June Who is nothing to her friends: A prett...
Posted by Max of the North Country on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:42:00 PST