Member: brtom

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Favorite authorsEdward Abbey, James Alison, John Ashbery, Donald Barthelme, Samuel Beckett, Tom Beckett, Hazel K. Bell, Wendell Berry, William Blake, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Constantine Cavafy, Anton Chekhov, Robert Cormier, San Juan de la Cruz, Chris Crutcher, Guy Davenport, Emily Dickinson, Isak Dinesen, Bob Dylan, Russell Edson, Peter Elbow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gustave Flaubert, John Champlin Gardner, Allen Ginsberg, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, William James, James Joyce, Kenneth Koch, Federico García Lorca, Kevin Lynch, Greil Marcus, Joseph Massey, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Herman Melville, Thomas Merton, Marianne Moore, Patrick Murphy, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Frank O'Hara, George Oppen, Gary Paulsen, Nick Piombino, Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Provensen, Philip Pullman, Thomas Pynchon, Adrienne Rich, Louise M. Rosenblatt, Salman Rushdie, James Schuyler, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, William Steig, Gertrude Stein, Jordan Stempleman, Wallace Stevens, David Thomson, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, John Welch, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, Louis Zukofsky (Shared favorites)

About mecarmelite
pretend poet
former high school english teacher

About my libraryit's made of long pauses.

it's almost all i ever wanted money for.

there used to be more to it.

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Member sinceJan 7, 2006

Currently readingCan Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems by Mr. John Felstiner
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (New California Poetry) by Keith Waldrop
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (Library of America) by Bill McKibben