LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER A Little known writer and THE true father of American Literary Independence, Oliver Wendel Holmes(Emerson's Biographer) sates the following in "Over Tea Cups"
I am afraid that Mr. Emerson and Mr. Whitman must yield the claim of declaring American literary independence to Lord Timothy Dexter, who not only taught his countrymen that they need not go to the Heralds' College to authenticate their titles of nobility, but also that they were at perfect liberty to spell just as they liked, and to write withouttroubling themselves about stops of any kind. In writing what I suppose he intended for poetry, he did not even take the pains to break up hislines into lengths to make them look like verse, as may be seen by thefollowing specimen:
WONDER OF WONDERS! (by Lord Timothy Dexter)
How great the soul is! Do not you all wonder and admire to see and behold and hear? Can you all believe half the truth, and admire to hearthe wonders how great the soul is--only behold--past finding out! Only see how large the soul is! that if a man is drowned in the sea what a great bubble comes up out of the top of the water... The bubble is the soul.
From the early years:
I began with Robert Frost, Phillip Levine, Anne Bradstreet, J.R.R. Tolkien's poetry and Shakespeare at six yrs old. At twelve I joined the theater to perform his works. I had a very hard time reading novels, due to word blindness caused by a later discovered tumor of the brain, this malady forced me to see the written page as a single picture and all at once instead of each word, because of this, I mainly read poetry. I began reading W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot and Robinson Jeffers, due to Joseph Campbell's praise of their works. I was soon seduced by these three poets and read there collected works over and over during the next 10 years, Eliot gained my particular interest.
Other Major Influences
E.E. Cummings
Ernst Hemingway
Louise Ferdinand Celine
Unica Zorn
Gertrude Stein
Jacques Derrida
Rimbaude
James Joyce
Emily Dickinson
Hart Crane
Tennessee
Foulcault
Benjamin
LaFourge
Paul Valert
& Eluard
Baudelaire...
Favorite Books
The Garden of Eden
A Movable Feast
Tender Buttons
The Waste Land
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
The Doll
Him
No Thanks
MeDea
Salome
Ulysses
Girly Man
Day
Sherlock Holmes
The Tower
Favorite Authors
GOLDSMITH
CHARLES BERNSTEIN
SIR AUTHOR C. DOYLE
W.B. YEATS
JAMES JOYCE
OSCAR WILDE
E. E. CUMMINGS
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
HANS BELLMER
LORD T DEXTER
HEMINGWAY
GERTRUDE STEIN
T. S. ELIOT
GALE JACKSON
HART CRANE
What I'm Reading
GIRLY MAN
ELUARD
VALERY
THE DOLL
FLOWERS OF GOOD AND EVIL
FOCAULT
Lost in Hindsight is up for THE Pulitzer Prize (for book of Poetry) 2009*, I'm Very excited and was recently informed of the nomination, so the blog's up linked with Amazon ask away.
