Favorite novelist: Henry James
Favorite poems: Rimbaud’s “Bateau Ivre,” Ginsberg’s “Howl,”
Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” Christopher
Smart’s “A Song to David,” The Song of Songs,
Milton’s “Paradise Lost” (primarily the first two books)
Favorite living
poet: Patrick Donnelly
Favorite artists: Grünewald, Botticelli, Van Gogh, the German
Expressionists
Favorite ballet: Jerome Robbins’s “Illuminations”
Favorite sea
chantey: “Shenandoah”
Favorite cathedral: Chartres
Favorite
activity: hiking, writing
Favorite spring
flower: cursed buttercup
Favorite summer
flower: stinging nettle
Favorite mold: scrambled-egg slime
Favorite
graffito: Jesus saves … but Moses
invests.
Favorite peeves: bubblegum, weenies, towels that say LOVE,
foundations for the advancement of bliss, junk mail
Favorite greenmarket
sign: LOCALLY GROAN
Favorite
president: Franklin Pierce
OK OK Clifford you're pulling our leg about Franklin Pierce being your favorite president, right? Our alcoholic president that was pro-slavery? The president that is ranked among the worst by historians? Or is there something I don't now?
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