Poem of the Proper Nouns


... Joseph Cornell. Dick Detective. Clark Coolidge. Ron Silliman. Eleanor Sterling. Jonathan Mayhew. Heriberto Yepez. Barbara Guest. Kenneth Koch. Jordan Davis. Art Blakey. Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Gertrude Stein. Edward Gorey. Julia Tsuchiya-Mayhew. Isla Correyero. Ornette Coleman. Paul Chambers. John Woodfill. Don Francisco de Quevedo. Frank O’Hara. Jacques Ancet. Pere Gimferrer. Thelonious Monk. José Angel Valente. Tony Towle. Ben Heller. Tony Williams. Raymond Roussel. Pierre Janet. Jim Rome. Marjorie Perloff. José Lezama Lima. Kenneth Irby. Jack Spicer. Bob Basil. Sarah Vaughn. W. Somerset Maugham. Leopoldo María Panero. Eugenio Trías. Eduardo Subirats. Judy Roitman. Roy Haynes. Dewey Redman. Ben Riley. Monica Frame. George Gordon. Laura (Riding) Jackson. H.D. Edith Sitwell. Julian “Cannonball” Adderly. Larry Rivers. Joe Brainard. Eileen Myles. Chris Stroffolino. Elmore Leonard. Bernadette Mayer. William Carlos Williams. Thomas Hardy. Willa Cather. Shelly Manne. Carter Beauford. Denardo Coleman. Sam Beckett. Antoni Tàpies. Edward Dahlberg. Don Knotts. Harry Houdini. Antonio Saura. Camarón de la Isla. Mark Twain. Elvin Jones. John Ashbery. Isabel Archer. Edward Kennedy Ellington. Charles Mingus. Edmond Jabès. Jonathan Williams. Ezra Pound. Ovidius Naso. Lisa Jarnot. Art Tatum. Robin Blaser. David Schubert. Henry Green. Willem de Kooning. Bill Berkson. Robert Creeley. Buddy Rich. Walt Whitman. Jorge Luis Borges. Américo Castro. Jaco Pastorius. Jack DeJohnette. Cindy Blackman. Ansel Adams. Maruja Mallo. Elizabeth Taylor. Clyde Stubblefield. Santiago Calatrava. David del Puerto. Antonio Gamoneda. Ildefonso Rodríguez. Marcel Proust. Amy Lowell. John Whitcomb Riley. Roland Barthes. Jimmy Cobb...