Which poets should I read if I really like Captain Beefheart's lyrics? His kind of surrealism that comes from the heart and his salt of the earth sensibilities strongly resonate within my soul, and I'm almost always encouraged to be more loving toward the world whenever I pay attention to him, as silly as that sounds. He wasn't so much a schizophrenic or an overly intellectual weirdo (especially in that specifically offputting early 20th european way) as much as he was a genuinely off-key spirit. The main literary parallels I've drawn to him are Georges Perec and Daniil Kharms, even if a good chunk of the latter's spirit seems to be lost in translation.I know that's not an author per se, but to stick with the arts in general, I consider him to be the absolute opposite to someone like Bunuel, who I despise.
I also forgot to mention Venedikt Erofeev, who exudes that similar kind of warmth which encompasses love, absurdity, colloquialisms, off-beat rhythms, childish humor, rustic landscapes, panic, and so on
>>24689670Probably looking for Richard Brautigan, tho maybe a bit more hippy than heart at times.
>>24690181You know what, I've had trout fishing in america on my radar for a long time now. I suppose this is a good occasion to finally take a crack at it.
>>24689670Brautigan, as this guy>>24690181says, is quite like Beefheart in spirit — i.e. oddball but more-or-less down-to-earth and friendly.But it's his PROSE that's most like CB. He did write poetry but that is more minimalist; it doesn't really go in for the lush language like CB. It's still worth looking at though. There are about six books of it and you can read the whole lot in an hour.John Ashbery is a bit like CB in the surreal part, but not all that much like him in the down-to-earth + friendly part. He's more obviously intellectual. (He's also weirder.)Dylan Thomas is like CBin the lush language part and also the anti-highbrow part, but his surrealism is slightly different. He just kinda strays into surrealism by caring more about the sound than the sense.
L’Homme approximatif, Tzara ?when it comes to lyrics, its hard to know what Vliet wrote and what he stole though, all the way back to safe as milk
