Bonus... #QuoteoftheDay also by #JimDodge this one is about the fundamental nature of #anarchy and freedom.

"It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing." - #JimDodge

That is #Quoteoftheday / #wordsofwisdom

The favorite authors meme

#7AuthorsToKnowMe

#JimDodge
#ThomasPynchon
#KatherineDunn
#CormacMccarthy
#WilliamFaulkner
#HarukiMurakami
#NeilGaiman

#JimDodge writes like he is making a list, but, it is the best list you will ever read.

The language is documenting events created in the imagination. Jim uses it in a way that does not draw attention to the language.

The events feel more accurate because of the amount of thought spent on imagining of them, not the documenting (writing) of them.

Randomly when something memorable or exceptional happens the description with more detail like watching a slow motion shot.

#literature #Writing

Tao-to-Tao

The way is
The way it is
Because that's the way
it is,
And why.

By #JimDodge

Can't remember if I shared this poem, by him, before. Again I don't own this one. It's by my favorite writer Jim Dodge. #Poet. #Poetry #Poem

Last #Poem of the day.

This one was written about #JimDodge and how much his #Poetry means to me.

It is a #ProsePoem and I did a second draft two years after writing the original (been working on it for about an hour).

This link leads to my #Blog hosted by #Blogger.

https://m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2022/12/tender-as-sanity-revision.html

The stone

Of two great masters,
They say one died serenely,
A little smile on his face;
The other screaming his head off,
Terrified of death.
There are no conclusions to reach.
The stone falls
Till it hits the earth.

By #JimDodge

A #Poem from his collection rain on the river.

I dont own this but several of his #ChapBook's are distinctly anti-copyright and I feel more people need to know of and read his books.

The post-beats counterculture is a fascinating aspect of the rock n' roll generation.

#ThomasPynchon, #HunterSThompson, and #JimDodge are for me the prose masters who directly inherited the tradition by reading it. With #TomRobbins is an eccentric planet X, type phenomenon that is sometimes in orbit but has his own gravitational trajectory with the other writers, and sometimes not.

These writers are at once more jaded and hopeful. Rebellious and insightful. A stew of contradiction.

Stone Junction by Jim Dodge.

Reading #StoneJunction by #JimDodge is like meeting the father you never had.

There are life lessons that will hurt but they will carry you through. This is a potboiler written by an alchemist monk obsessed with magic and its place in the real world.

American kitsch from an author who "played too much fort as a kid." and whose favorite novel is Lonesome Dove.

Getting to Oz by way of sex drugs and rock n' roll.

#Books #Bookstodon #BookReview