a l k i m y: What the Weaverbird Knows

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

What the Weaverbird Knows

10,000 years in a prison
10,000 years to cry
10,000 years to remember
Endless time waiting to die

Love came with no promises
Love swept you up from the plain
Love in the end was a devil
And now you are caught in his game

So fly away, fly away, weaverbird
But first sing me a song of home
Sing me a song of the sunshine
While love picks me bare as a bone

For Nada
Who only loved
Too much

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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 each key off one of the colors of the visible spectrum, a conceit irresistible to this artist :) and borrowed for my own series Beyond The Knife. This is my favorite Vollmann book, followed by the Royal Family. As one reviewer put it, neither are for the faint of heart :).

His first novel, You Bright and Risen Angels, I found impossible to get through though.