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• 5/25/2009 9:22 PM From Facebook wrote:
  
  Christina M. Brooks , Dianne Borsenik and Zakaria Mekesser like this.
  

  Le Pink-Elephant Press , Jen Pezzo -Kerowyn Rose , and 3 others like this.

  
  

    Bree Zlee at 11:56am May 25

  i am honored to be on that list, man!

  
  

    Christina M. Brooks at 12:00pm May 25

  I think you were working out your list at the same time as I was working on mine. Just ready to post it.
  
  Lots of poetry here... I could have done the same because right now that's mostly what I'm reading. But I wanted to share a few titles instead that have pivotal for me at different times for different reasons.
  
  The levy book you list is not one I've been able to find around.. is that still in print? kanhavyrfucknciti Bak

  
  

    Mike Finley at 12:20pm May 25

  I hear a lot of Milton in your work, John! You're like Milton II!
  
  Now I wish I hadn't written that. Words can hurt!
  
  It's a very vulnerable thing, listing one's influences. Now people can pad through and see who you've ripped off.
  
  I'm still recovering from my Elizabeth Barrett Browning scandal.

  
  

    John Burroughs at 12:29pm May 25

  Thanks for sending me your book when you did, Bree. Funny, if I hadn't sent you my book, you might notta sent me yours (maybe - I don't know). Great thing about poetry - you give it away and you get it back - sometimes you get a lot more than you gave - which means you then have more to give.

  
  

    John Burroughs at 12:32pm May 25

  The levy collection was outaprint for a long time. Only 1000 copies were made in 1967. But then Russell Salamon reprinted 400 copies in 2007 - I found one of these at Visible Voice Books in Cleveland, the last one they had, last year.

  
  

    John Burroughs at 12:41pm May 25

  In a way, I take the Milton mention a high compliment. If only....
  
  Raised a strict southern Baptist with extreme doubts I was afraid to voice, I found in Milton proof a great example of how to get away with it without being irredeemably condemned to hell.
  
  I like what Bono said - a lot of times it's true, though we try to avoid it. "Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief. All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief."

  
  

    Wendy Shaffer at 12:44pm May 25

  thanks john!

  
  

    John Burroughs at 12:53pm May 25

  Thank you, Wendy!

  
  

    Alex Gildzen at 8:31pm May 25

  what
  an honor
  to touch Basho

  
  

    Dianne Borsenik at 9:40pm May 25

  Hmmmm... no Borsenik in the list... (just kidding you, JC!)

  
  

    John Burroughs at 10:10pm May 25

  I suspect Basho might feel equally honored, Alex, were he living in our time and acquainted with your poetry.

  
  

    John Burroughs at 10:18pm May 25

  Borsenik goes without saying!  (especially since I published it)
  
  
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• 5/26/2009 9:39 AM smith wrote:
  thanks for including me in your list. Paradise Lost also greatly influenced my mind.
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