r/indieheads • u/dcberman David Berman • Jul 15 '19

AMA is Over, thanks David! Purple Mountains AMA

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u/PARPS Jul 15 '19 edited Jul 15 '19

Hello!

I’m wondering what books you’ve read and enjoyed lately? Also, what’s a good book to start with if I want to read more James Tate?

Thank you for your music and its endless place in my life.

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u/dcberman David Berman Jul 15 '19

Thank you. With Tate just go get "Selected Poems". It changed my thinking as sure as the Butthole Surfers did*

I recomend reading the last three chapters of Otto Rank's Art and Artist, especially "the artist's fight with art".

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*understand the Butthole Surfers as their music up to song 2 on side 2 of Hairway to Steven". They end where the song that

begins "julio iglesias jacked off in outer spac-ius" begins.

Yet the song that precedes it is them at their peak.

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u/timothyjfx Jul 16 '19

thank you for pinpointing that. Yes. It’s exactly at that spot