maybe I'll weed
ideas, lost chances
it all needs
rooted out.
ideas, lost chances
it all needs
rooted out.
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About Me
- Kim Northrop
- Artist & writer living in Sarasota, Florida. Pretty dedicated to the sustainable, lowering my carbon footprint thing. You can contact me at info@kimnorthrop.com or post here.
Influences
The Dream Suite was deeply influenced by Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comic book series. There are so many ways to describe this series, and none that I can think of do it justice, so I think I'll use a quote from Gaiman himself."Could I do another five issues of Sandman? Well, damn right. And would I be able to look at myself in the mirror happily? No. Is it time to stop because I've reached the end, yes, and I think I'd rather leave while I'm in love."
I also dearly love Lucifer from Mike Carey
and Fables by Bill Willingham
I don't like old stuff. I didn't like it in school, I don't like it now. The poetry inflicted upon us in high school? In college? Old stuff. That's too bad, because there is a lot of good new stuff out there.
One of the first post-modern poets was Frank O'Hara. New stuff. So I like it. He was also a curator at the MOMA and brought a visual artist's sensibility to poetry. Well, at least that's what I think.
If you want to get started reading contemporary poetry I heartily recommend the following books:
Which is an offshoot of a web-based project called Poetry 180 that he did to introduce high school students to modern, accessible poetry.
William Vollmann recently contributed to a book called Avant Porn [edited by Michael Hemmingson}, and I guess that's one way to describe his work, although it ranges wildly.
The Rainbow Stories
His first novel, You Bright and Risen Angels, I found impossible to get through though.
2 comments:
Love your blog!... here is an interesting link I found for garden enthusiasts in the area:
Florida FarmLink is a project of the Florida West Coast RC&D to connect small farms and beginning farmers to land, expertise, apprentices, mentors, staff, markets, and other resources and services related to starting or expanding their farming operation. It will function as a web-based matching service, to be established at www.FloridaFarmLink.org.
Just sign up and be part of it!.
Thanks for what you do!
Elena De La Ville
artist, beekeeper and gardener
www.edelaville.com
ELENA! Thanks for posting. I'm having fun with the blog. And thanks for the link--are you going to get involved?
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