I always turn to Frank O'Hara and David Berman's 'Actual Air,' which came out in 1999. He's a poet I haven't tired of.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.
'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.
My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.
I loved 'About Schmidt'. I like Alexander Payne's work a lot.