adding some crunch the the lunch!
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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.
3 comments:
OHHHHHHH! This has got to be the BEST haiku EVER!!!!!
by the way, where do you get the awesome clip art for your poems? do you draw them? I love the fan and this cockroach!
The fan is mine, took a photo, photoshopped. I use www.clipart.com a lot. There was actually a dead palmetto bug [read, huge cockroach] on the floor of my office recently. I'm claiming the cats bring them in. I should have thrown him/her on the scanner but I really do find them horribly icky. Even writing the Haiku made me faintly nauseous.
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