Member: poetontheone

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"I want to make a poem of my life" - Yukio Mishima

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Frisk - Dennis Cooper
Native Son - Richard Wright
The Night in Question: Stories - Tobias Wolff
Old School - Tobias Wolff
Genet: A Biography - Edmund White
Divorcer - Gary Lutz
Play the Piano Drunk ... - Charles Bukowski
Gunman's Tally - L. Ron Hubbard
West of Here - Jonathan Evison
Spain, Take This Cup from Me - César Vallejo

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

- Richard Bach

"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."

- Aleister Crowley

"One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters … With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk."

- Charles Baudelaire

"Most men will not swim before they are able to. Is not that witty? Naturally, they won’t swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won’t think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what’s more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown."

- Hermann Hesse

"...human beings possess the weapon of knowledge in order to make life bearable. For animals such things aren't necessary. Animals don't need knowledge or anything of the sort to make life bearable. But human beings do need something, and with knowledge they can make the very intolerableness of life a weapon, though at the same time that intolerableness is not reduced in the slightest. That's all there is to it."

- Yukio Mishima

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Favorite authorsKathy Acker, Georges Bataille, Charles Baudelaire, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Bukowski, Dennis Cooper, Aleister Crowley, Jean Genet, Hermann Hesse, Lautreamont, Henry Miller, Yukio Mishima, Anaïs Nin, Dale Pendell, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Rimbaud, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Hunter S. Thompson, Saul Williams, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresAdams Avenue Book Store, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Grossmont Ctr, Books Kinokuniya - San Francisco, City Lights Books, Controversial Bookstore, Fifth Avenue Books, Maxwell's House of Books, Moe's Books, Powell's City of Books (Portland)

Favorite publishersAkashic Books, Feral House, NYRB Classics, Tupelo Press, W.W. Norton

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Currently readingSelected Poems by T. S. Eliot
Drunken Angel: A Memoir by Alan Kaufman
The Hive by Camilo Jose Cela