1) kevin young 2) yusef komunyakaa 3) e.e. Cummings 4) amiri baraka 5) audre lorde 6) michael harper 7) saul williams
Miles Davis interactions w/ S.O. weather alcohol/hangovers trips out of town the daily grind
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myself is sculptor of your body’s idiom: the musician of your wrists; the poet who is afraid only to mistranslate a rhythm in your hair... -E.E. Cummings
5. "I can't extricate your categories from one another..." In response to Reply # 0
not that I think they're flawed, but because I think I write on the basis of a life whose events are dark to me and which may be largely a fantastic music being conceived by someone else in a room in a city that does not exist.
------------------------------ Something like Eldridge Cleaver meets John Lennon
6. "So in a sense, even fiction writing is another's truth..?" In response to Reply # 5
http://worthwatering.blogspot.com Can it be I stayed away too long?/ Did I leave your mind when I was gone?/ It's not my thing trying to get back/ But this time let me tell you where I'm at-- Jackson Five
10. "You're begging the question..." In response to Reply # 6
What is truth? Fiction writing is I think the kind of writing that can be most true, if we mean by truth the moment of revelation which illuminates the human condition for us, even if for but a minute. So if we want to talk about authors of truth in American literature, for instance, we're going to talk about Faulkner every time.
true fiction isn't that flacid experience where someone puts something better than you could have, but you agree with it naturally, either. True fiction gives you the spins, it smacks you with something you couldn't possibly have conceived, and yet you know when you see it that the world has been lit up. Lightning.
------------------------------ Something like Eldridge Cleaver meets John Lennon
16. "but of course certain mediums inspire more or less than others..." In response to Reply # 10
so reading fiction of others
vs.
taking a walk in a city and observing conversation, an argument, a man being hit by a car...
i'm sure most are inspired on different levels by all the categories given...definitely an amalgamation of influence.
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myself is sculptor of your body’s idiom: the musician of your wrists; the poet who is afraid only to mistranslate a rhythm in your hair... -E.E. Cummings
8. "RE: Where does your inspiration come from?" In response to Reply # 0
everything, everyplace i've been peeps i've known and lost r.i.p. i haven't been really posting anything lately, taking a break but i'll be hittin y'all with some mo' material soon ~ -one
they showed us phYsically, we could reach infinitY, but mentally, through the century, we lost our identitY -Rakim
http://worthwatering.blogspot.com Can it be I stayed away too long?/ Did I leave your mind when I was gone?/ It's not my thing trying to get back/ But this time let me tell you where I'm at-- Jackson Five
15. "kevin young is currently changing my life..." In response to Reply # 0
and has been since i picked up jelly roll a few years ago.
among dozens of other writers.
i observe as well.
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myself is sculptor of your body’s idiom: the musician of your wrists; the poet who is afraid only to mistranslate a rhythm in your hair... -E.E. Cummings
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