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These People Have Contributed Materially in Many Ways to Make My Writing What it is. Please Do Not Hold it Against them.

Originally Published: July 18, 2007
John Cage
David Wondrich
Georges Perec
Cheryl Donegan
Sri Ramakrishna
James Joyce
Abraham Lincoln Gillespie
Marjorie Perloff
Christian Bök
David Antin
Aram Saroyan
Roland Barthes
Diana Vreeland
Andy Warhol
Jan Holcomb
Ken Freedman
Sten Hanson
Larry Miller
Yoko Ono
Kay Rosen
Walter Benjamin
Augusto De Campos
Sergio Bessa
Ara Shirinyan
Geoffrey Young
James Siena
Jean Baudrillard
Gertrude Stein
Samuel Beckett
Alan Ginsberg
Abbie Hoffman
Frank Zappa
Charles Ives
Jill Simensky
Jerome Rothenberg
Wayne Koestenbaum
Verner Panton
Wallace Berman
Barbara Cole
Charles Bernstein
Johanna Drucker
Darren Wershler-Henry
Lori Emerson
Simon Morris
Craig Dworkin
Brian Kim Stefans
Michael Scharf
Karin Bravin
Swami Tagathananda
Frank Kitchens
Bobbie Oliver
Suzanne Joelson
Gary Stephan
Henry Turmon
Gary Landown
Al Filreis
Ron Silliman
Judy Hicks
Bruce Andrews
Leevi Lehto
Jesper Olsson
Pejk Malinovski
Bern Porter
Sophie Tucker
Beniamino Gigli
Maria Callas
Thelonious Monk
Neil Young
Marcus Boon
Henry James
John Giorno
Bill Arning
Raphael Rubinstein
Kurt Weill
Robert Ashley
Ellen Abramowitz
Alexander Gray
Brian Wilson
José Reyes
Joe Gould
Ezra Pound
Philip Guston
Merce Cunningham
Marcel Duchamp
Buckminster Fuller
Dick Higgins
Aleba Gartner
Émile Zola
Jackson Mac Low
Ludwig Wittgenstein
George Antheil
Eirk Satie
Rob Fitterman
Mauricio Kagel
Caroline Bergvall
Walt Frazier
Alan Licht
David Grubbs
Ruth & Marvin Sackner
Coyle & Sharpe
Brion Gysin
Vito Acconci
Samuel Johnson
Richard Foreman
E.E. Cummings
Jelle Meander
Nicolas Musin
Ron Wakkary
Joan La Barbara
Klaus Kinski
David Daniels
Gregory Whitehead
Vicki Bennett
Charles Eames
Paul Smith

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