LITERARY INFLUENCES

(in alphabetic order, top ten in RED, top two UNDERLINED, and Maine influences in GREEN)

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET; RAY BRADBURY; KURT BROWN; CHARLES BUKOWSKI;  GEORGE CARLIN (surprisingly);  LEONARD COHEN; BILLY COLLINS; MICHAEL CRICHTON; e.e. cummings; EMILY DICKINSON; JOEL GETCHELL. KENNETH FEARING; LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI;  JOSEPH HELLER; ERNEST HEMINGWAY; TONY HOAGLAND; KEN KESEY; STEPHEN KING; RON KOERTGE; GARY LARSON (oh yeah); WES McNAIR; HERMAN MELVILLE (seriously); DAVE MORRISON; WILFRED OWEN;  EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON; J. D. SALINGER; CARL SANDBURG; ROD SERLING;  KARL SHAPIRO; JEAN SHEPHERD; SHEL SILVERSTEIN; CHARLES SIMIC; JOHN STEINBECK; MARK TWAIN; KURT VONNEGUT, JR.; TOM WOLF... 




                                   Thank you, one and all, for messing with my head!

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