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Name:
Raphael
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Style:
Spoken Word
Age:
30
Joined:
Jun 8, 2011
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Landmark performances of original poems, written by the legendary Fallow! Mostly new formalist compositions, with some slam poetry and free verse added for good measure.
Influenced more greatly by Leonard Cohen than T.S. Eliot; by Daniel Johnston than Donald Justice.
These poems are not socio-politically "safe," nor for the faint of heart, nor the easily uplifted by peace-paeans to centerstage domesticity. This is American verse at its most pretension-riskingly dysphoric, untrendishly censurous, and diegetically vague - like a window opened unto an empty life, purged by flame of colloquial hutches and the easy-chair of disingenuity.
Bring your own shovel.
Influenced more greatly by Leonard Cohen than T.S. Eliot; by Daniel Johnston than Donald Justice.
These poems are not socio-politically "safe," nor for the faint of heart, nor the easily uplifted by peace-paeans to centerstage domesticity. This is American verse at its most pretension-riskingly dysphoric, untrendishly censurous, and diegetically vague - like a window opened unto an empty life, purged by flame of colloquial hutches and the easy-chair of disingenuity.
Bring your own shovel.
Influences:
Sappho, Sophocles, Virgil, Milton, Blake, Byron, Coleridge, John Wilmot, Thomas Chatterton, Wilfred Owen, Donald Petersen, Ruth Stone, Mary Wollstonecraft, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertolt Brecht, Vladimir Nabokov, Neil Postman, Dorothy Tennov, Philip Roth, Hubert Selby Jr, Stephen Sondheim
Hometown:
Las Vegas
Country:
United States
Schools:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Binghamton University
Interests:
poetry; music; film; theatre; limerence; androgyny; closet drama; courtly love; philosophy; backgammon; classic video games
Movies:
John Cassavetes, Alfred Hitchcock, Maya Deren, Michelangelo Antonioni, Stanley Kubrick, David Mamet, Milo Addica, P.T. Anderson
Music:
Townes Van Zandt, Jackson C. Frank, Simon Joyner, Leonard Cohen, Conor Oberst, Radiohead, The Mountain Goats, Nina Simone, Woody Guthrie, Tori Amos, David Dondero, Elliott Smith
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I'd already subbed to your chan when I sent a friend request, but simply because I liked your vids, not because I was counting on you to sub back. If you really like my poems and would like to follow my chan, thanks a ton for subbing! I try to put up new content several times per week, and will soon be branching out from reading my poetry, into other projects. But if you're not into what I do, by no means should you feel obligated to remain subbed.
Peace : )