Well, perhaps not all in the wink-wink nudge-nudge sense of the word, but all the poetry I own, plus a dozen or so of my non-poetry books, can be gawked at, pointed at, laughed at and marveled over by going to:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Aimless
which webified location is also where this handy link goes.
Those of you who take the time to satisfy whatever fleabite of curiosity you might feel about my poetry library will find out how shockingly uncontemporary my choices are and how ossified and archaic my tastes remain. Really. Close to 100% of the poets I own are dead people. No kidding.
― Aimless, Saturday, 22 December 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago)
Well, based on your recent Creeley and Koch purchases, it's not as if you wait for them to be long dead.
― Casuistry, Sunday, 23 December 2007 05:57 (seventeen years ago)
For some perverse reason, I like to have a poet's collected works. This pretty much ensures they need to be dead.
As for the recently-deceased poets like Koch or Creeley, the moment of death is the exact moment when their publisher springs for a prestige edition of their collected works. Since prestige is just about all a poet ever brings to a publisher, this is not quite as cynical as it seems. What with tying up the estate and getting the editorial nuances settled, it's usually about 3 years after death when the book issues.
When this big, well-designed collection inevitably is remaindered after about 8 months, that's a great opportunity to snag a nice edition on the cheap. (Yes, that is as cynical as it seems. I blame society.)
― Aimless, Sunday, 23 December 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago)
That reminds me of the last scene of this film, of which I tried to find an image but failed.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 23 December 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago)
"pussyfooting around" on any thread i show up on is very different from directly replying to me with inflammatory nonsense and is characteristic of the disingenuous bullshit you always try to pull when someone calls you out or disagrees with you, especially if they identify as a feminist. it's the sort of self-serving distortion of perspective a men's rights advocate such as yourself is fond of embracing to say the least.
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:04 (ten years ago)
and that conflation is characteristic
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:08 (ten years ago)
nb: the quote about "pussyfooting around" is from a 77 thread, so I can't link to it on open forum, but why matt seems to think this is an appropriate place to address his belief that what I wrote was inflammatory, self-serving or a distortion is beyond understanding.
matt, just go ahead and kill file me. you are incapable of ignoring me and stalking me is bad form.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:36 (ten years ago)