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Michael Helsem, Poet
(birthdate) 011358
(place of birth) dallas tx
(height) below average
(weight) proportionate
(hair color and eye color) strawberry blond, cerulean
(sex) male
(handedness) parasinistral
(sexual orientation) straight
(ethnic background) white trash
(pets) iMAC
(spouse) y
(number of children) n
(occupation) bookstore clerk
(yearly earnings) 12k?
(schools and degrees)
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bchlr in video UTDallas '83
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(vocations) curiosity
(hobbies) woolgathering
(religion) hostility
(politics) arrogance
(what respondent enjoys in the arts besides poetry)
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all kinds of music. listening to a lot of Bjork these days, Arabic & Bollywood film music
fav boox include Poets in a Landscape by Gilbert Highet, Against the Grain by J K
Huysmans
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(why poetry, etc.) writing since grade school. what i read evoked a voice within me.
(science and philosophy) read much of both in college & earlier, not since. the former has
retrograded since Wittgenstein, the latter has not yet caught up with Modernism.
(interests in sports) playing, chess. watching, none.
(life- in-general) is good. i'm happy. poor & precarious & productive.
(The first poem that comes to mind right now is) izumi's moonlight tanka
(What do you think of the current status of the world, and can you do anything about it?)
been worse, we ought to remember the 9c., kvetchwise
(questions left off survey) color preferences
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