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Member: dirkjohnson

CollectionsYour library (1,234), Currently reading (2), All collections (1,234)

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Tagspoetry (501), 20th Century poetry (238), American poetry (184), Buddhism (146), modernism (133), music (129), literary criticism (117), literature (113), postmodern (100), 20th Century literature (93) — see all tags

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GroupsBuddhism, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Poetry Fool

Favorite authorsDudjom Rinpoche, Jikdrell Yeshe Dorje, Robert Edward Duncan, H.D., Ezra Pound, Gyatrul Rinpoche, Chagdud Tulku (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresThe Book Juggler

About meJust a nut who thinks he can write poetry. Though I belong to several social networking sites, I'm not much of a networker. I like people, but tend to go off on my own both physically and intellectually. The social network memberships, including this one, are feeble attempts to antidote my anti-social tendencies.

About my libraryAfter an initial burst of adding books time has become and issue. Still a few hundred to go.

I've sold nearly the entire thing twice. The last time I sold it, about 13 years ago when I moved from New York to California, there were about 5,000 books, of which I only kept a couple hundred based more on what I thought would be hardest to find again than on what I liked best. Of course, I made errors in my forecast.

But now, once again, it's crowding me out of my house. But this time I won't sell it.

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Member sinceJul 24, 2008

Currently readingGod's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis
Meter in Poetry: A New Theory by Nigel Fabb