Writing & Reading/704

Saturday 29 March 2008

I am finishing up my manuscript, Why Go to Palestine, and as I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, I am grateful to the following works, which I could not get out of my system as I was creating, composing, redacting, and realizing my almost endless litany:

Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Joe Brainard, I Remember

Bob Dylan, “Brownsville Girl”

Paul Eluard, “Liberté”

T.S. Eliot, “The Wasteland”

Federico Fellini, 8 ½

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, I, Americus

Lawrene Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art

Allen Ginsberg, Howl

Tuli Kupferberg, 1001 Ways to Make Love

Ed Sanders, Investigative Poetics

George Steiner, “A Pythagorean Genre”

Anne Waldman, “Fast Talking Woman”

Eliot Weinberger, What I Heard about Iraq

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass