E Maria Shelton Speller's Reading Interests
Influences
I've been inside Giovanni's Room with Yukio Mishima and the Subterraneans, in Dada with Marcel Duchamp, in love always with The Supremes, listening to Ryuichi Sakamoto, Erykah Badu and Bob Dylan's Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie, remembering Edie, Tina Chow, and Miles Davis, reading Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae, Octavio Paz, Toni Morrison, June Jordan, and Raymond Williams again... wondering if Me'Shell Ndege' Ocello can do it again, (Do you think she would do it for the girls in pink - in the trenches?) taken with Rage Against the Machine, poets with bass on their breast-plates and sirens in space...
"Guzel..."
He called her beautiful
before his mouth closed and his eyes narrowed.
I ordered two shots of viski.
I was above lust in a crowd.
Instead I encouraged the love
Simon consumed and Ishmir conserved,
like any valid voyeur. ”
—E Maria Shelton Speller, Explode: Epic Poetry -- "Istanbul"
About E
Author E. Maria Shelton Speller, spent the early part of her career in the United States Air Force; BSFA with honors from Northeastern University is a member of ZICA Creative Arts and Literary Guild and Boston’s own Zone Poets. Published by Arula Records...
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