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Pete Landers, Poet
birthdate = May 19, 1956 place of birth = Salem, Mass. height = 6'2" weight = 180 lbs. hair color and eye color = blonde/blue sex = male handedness = right sexual orientation = monogamous hetero ethnic background = Irish pets = 2 cats spouse = Tami number of children = 2 occupation = Tech Writer yearly earnings = 0K schools and degrees = non-academic vocations = I take vocation at least once a year. hobbies = I don't approach anything as a hobby. If I like it, I immerse myself deeply. religion = The cosmic Self or Atman is the totality. I am a part of it. politics = I vote for people who want to provide health care to poor people. I don't vote for people who start wars. what respondent enjoys in the arts besides poetry = I like classical music, especially opera. I can listen to Wagner for hours, I try to ignore his message. I like Mahler, too. Claudio Abbado has some good interpretations. I don't like what Boulez is doing with Wagner and Mahler, but I love his Debussy. I listen to the King's Singers, whether they are singing barbershop or renaissance. I am a baritone and I sing a local chorus. I also play new age sounds on my midi keyboard and have been in a few performance art / poetry performance ensembles, most notably _Health and Beauty_. I also listen to rock, particularly Rush, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush. I'm an old John Lennon fan. science and philosophy = Into Whitehead lately, because of the postmodern poets. interests in sports = Baseball (Mets) life- in-general = Basically, I think there are 3 kinds of metaphors: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. The first is what great poets are all about. Moby Dick was an igneous metaphor. The second is what most poets are about. Our work is built from precipitation from previous generations. We rarely get that overwhelming volcanic explosion. Then there are these really hardened metaphors from ages long dead. They are too hardened for any useful purpose so we generally use them to make statues. The statue of Homer, for instance, which is pitted from the acid rain. The statue of Blake is still being carved... The first poem that comes to mind right now is: = Maximus What do you think of the current status of the world, and can you do anything about it? = People who gain power are inclined to be more interested in their own personal gain than the people they are supposed to serve. I don't trust them. I pay attention to those individuals I meet daily. |