1000 poems for everyday life. Poems about New Hampshire, New York City, ecology, existence. From yard sale: shequality almonds olives oranges onions avocados beauty boldness bravery buds blues beer passion poetry pageantry poverty puberty animals amazons airpowered automobiles influences: Lao Tzu, Pythagoras, Sappho, St. Francis, Hildegarde Van Bingen, Dante, Rabelais, John Donne, William Shakespeare, Keats, Shelly, Lord Byron, Samuel Coleridge, Charles Baudelaire, Frederick Von Schiller, Walt Whitman, Ned Ludd, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, Poe, Yeats, William Blake, Sufi poets, Gurdjieff, George Bernard Shaw, Annie Besant, Victoria Woodhull, Mary Baker Eddy, Johnny Appleseed, The Shakers, Emerson, Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, George Orwell, Rudyard Kipling, JR Tolkien, Heinrik Ibsen, Gilbert & Sullivan, Emily Dickenson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Carlos Williams, Robinson Jeffers, Robert Frost, Robert Graves, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Bert Williams, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Will Rogers, WC Fields, Ukelele Ike, The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Robert Bootzin, Arnold Ehret, Paramahansa Yogananda, Marcel Duchamp, Mary Lou Williams, Mahalia Jackson, Eddie Condon, Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin, Max Morath, Mezz Mezzrow, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, The Boswell Sisters, The Carter Family, Jimmy Rodgers, Uncle Dave Macon, Charlie Poole, Grandpa Jones, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly), Dan Burley, Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Billie Holiday, Slim Gaillard, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, BB King, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Brian Wilson, Del Shannon, Adriano Celentano, Arnie Ginsberg, Dick Summer, Dick Curless, Jimmy Driftwood, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Alan Lomax, Mo Asch, Sam Charters, Harry Smith, Jack Kerouac, John Coltrane, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, The Last Poets, La Mama, Carlos Casteneda, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Ken Kesey, Stewart Brand, Frank Zappa, The Living Theatre, The Firesign Theatre, Pete Stampfel, John Trudell, Professor Louie, Tuli Kupferberg, Adam Purple, Abbie Hoffman, Petra Kelly, Subcommandante Marcos, The Dalai Lama, Louise Gibbs, Pete Seeger, Dave Van Ronk, Fred Neil, Phil Ochs, Peggy Seeger, Marshall Dodge, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Odetta, Ray Charles, Curtis Mayfield, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Staples Singers, Carol King, John Lennon, Brian Jones, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Ray Davies, Paul McCartney, Jim Morrison, Donovan, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Yoko Ono, Joni Mitchell, Tom Rush, Levon Helm, Gram Parsons, JJ Cale, Jerry Garcia, Syd Barrett, Gene Clark, Richie Havens, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, Toots Hibbert, Buddy Guy, Steve Earle, Greg Brown, Billy Bragg, Lucinda Williams, Devo, Jeff Buckley, Ry Cooder, Patti Smith, Bjork, Kurt Cobain.