Phil Cousineau's Reading Interests

"For years, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been asking, 'Where are San Francisco's great new poets?' The answer is, they are here, and in fact have been here in San Francisco and the Bay Area for a long while.... Phil Cousineau has long been a powerful presence in the Bay Area literary scene, but he is best known as a filmmaker and...writer who has carried on and reinterpreted the work of Joseph Campbell, especially regarding the omnipresent influence of myth in modern life.... Cousineau has been publishing--in very limited editions--collections of his own poetry, whose influence has been noted by a great many other major poets of his generation..."”