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kassy lee

a quiche among omelettes

About Me

I am the cheese to your macaroni.
Je t'aime qu'hier moins que demain.

I am addicted to Harry Potter and Twilight, deal with it. James McAvoy IS the cat's meow. I believe Daniel Day Lewis' role in "There Will Be Blood" is the best thing ever since sliced cheese. I am working on a small library in my home; in which books are shelved by color alone. I hold strongly to the belief that Kevin Costner's monologue in the 1988 film "Bull Durham" detailing various convictions of sex, Walt Whitman, and baseball deeply changed my life. I am a writer and a poet. I want to be reborn with the smarts n' skills of Frank O'Hara, Jack Gilbert and Louise Glück. My cat's name is Romeo; and I do what I want. ..

My Interests

My family
Snail mail
poetry
museums
Home
Bon Vivants
cigars
ARTnews
ferry boats
animal print chaos
guilty pleasures
the iceberg principle
pillow talk

I'd like to meet:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Jack Gilbert
Andy Goldsworthy
Keith Urban
People who do the right thing
a more fulfilled and creative self
and my grandmother, again.

Music:

Broken Social Scene
Sigur Ros
Feist, Cansei de Ser Sexy
Explosions in the Sky
Stevie Nicks
Otis Redding
Simon and Garfunkel
Common
Nina Simone
Van Morrison
Amy Winehouse, Ratatat
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Luciano Pavarotti
George Strait

Movies:

How Art Made the World, Amelie, Cinema Paradiso, L'Auberge Espangole, Sex and Lucia, Me You and Everyone We Know, Hotel Rawanda, City of God, 28 Days Later, Say Anything, Le Battement D'Aile du Papillion, Love Actually, Babel, L'Ultima Baccio, Capote, Pride and Prejudice, Une Liaison Pornagraphique, Stealing Beauty, El Laberinto del Fauno, Tea with Mussolini, Moonstruck, A Streetcar Named Desire, Juno, 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Paris Je T'Aime, Efter Brylluppet, Top Gun, Paint Your Wagon and, of course, The Goonies!

Television:

BBC
Food Network
Travel Channel
Arrested Development

Books:

The Bell Jar; Gone With the Wind; The Divine Comedy; A Clockwork Orange; The Catcher in the Rye; The Last Avant Garde; the Da Vinci Code; Cesar Vallejo, the collected; John Ashberry: Reported Sightings, Art Chronicles; Shanna; Nadja by Andre Breton; Basho; Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea; The Grapes of Wrath; On the Road; The Alchemist; Shogun; Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal; Museum of the Missing; Jack Gilbert; Gerald Stern; Charles Simic...

Lend me new ones

Heroes:

My Parents
Hunter
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Andy Goldsworthy
Antony Gormley
Frank O'Hara
James Schuyler

Men who still stand up when a lady enters a room.

Individuals who harbor honor, not pride (there's a roomful of difference)

My Blog

Wrist Deep in Snow

The first edition of the Superstition Review, a new online literary journal, is available to the public; and features a small piece written by me. A direct link to my poem, entitled "Without" can be f...
Posted by kassy lee on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:17:00 PST

My Mother and Father

 Cosmopsis Quarterly is now available for purchase and features a small piece by me entitled "My Mother and Father."A bit about Cosmopsis publications: "Cosmopsis Books was formed as a secret wea...
Posted by kassy lee on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:47:00 PST

Anniversary

The 2006 Iowa Source Poetry Anthology containing my piece "Anniversary" is now available for purchase in both hard and soft cover.For contest information and winners:2006 Iowa Source Poetry Anthology ...
Posted by kassy lee on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:31:00 PST