LOST IN HINDSIGHT NOMINATED FOR PULITZER IN POETRY

photo credit: SYLVANWILLOW LEAF

Author Biography

I was born Sept. 19th of 1981, in Methuen, Massachusetts. At a very young age I struggled over being a poet or a painter, I always knew I would become an artist.
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Influences

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

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Huntington Sharp says:

Congratulations!

That's incredible news, Craig! Please keep us posted here.

Huntington Sharp, Red Room

Mon, 09/08/2008 - 12:58pm — Huntington Sharp

Craig s leaf says:

Thanks will keep redroom posted

Thanks

I only hope the nomination gets the work to the reader, it may be may people's belief that writing a book or getting a publisher to pick it up is the the tuff part. I believe getting the work read and reviewed is just as difficult, I thankyou that red room exists. Any advice on reviews or just send copies everywhere?

Best

Thanks again

Craig Leaf

Mon, 09/08/2008 - 8:57pm — Craig s leaf

Nomination

No advice at this point, Craig, but I might have more ideas if you uploaded a link to where the nomination was announced. Thanks!

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 8:50am — Huntington Sharp

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