Life
I'm a little younger than my nose and a little older than my teeth.
Influences
I had a professor once say that to understand Ezra Pound's work, you had to have read everything that he had. Screw that noise.
Philosophy
I just want to write and be left the hell alone otherwise.
I believe that every writer is steeped in his/her own influences and experiences and karma and everything else; but once the words are on paper, that's it. Judge the work by the work--not by the artist's personality, looks, history, blah blah blah. If all those satellite factors are required to make the work significant... then it can't stand on its own. Ergo, tis worthless. You can read Catcher in the Rye an infinite number of times and see yourself reflected in it in every phase of your life... in affirmation or opposition. Salinger's life or lifestyle never has to come into play.
It's fallacious to claim that the writer/reader experience is an intimate conversation between the two. They are separate and completely unrelated experiences. The written is writ with or without a reader. Later, the reader reads the written in a different context, carrying different luggage, etc etc, and derives an entirely different meaning. I don't care if it's a novel, a fortune cookie, or a horoscope. That's the beautiful limitation of language.
... and that's why I subscribe to the Ineffable Books philosophy or manifesto or whatever. I'm along for the ride.
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