Influences - Who and how?

[Pete]

I am personally influenced by Rage Against the Machine, T.S. Eliot and Robert Jordan. I allude to them, and follow the first twos structure sometimes, but I also break away and do my onw thing.

[mentalbunny]

I am influenced by Sylvia Plath, amoung others like Carol Ann Duffy and RS Thomas, when it comes to poetry and a huge collection of people when it comes to prose, but I also have my own style.

[Fires of History]

Where to even begin?

Hunter S. Thompson

Chuck Palahniuk

Shakespeare

Yep, these are the three that I have internal conversations with the most, think about the most, love the most, and am definitely influenced by the most.

Although Daniel Quinn's series of books started with Ishmael are so...right...fucking...on that I can't believe it- and another I cannot forget to mention as a definite influence.

P.S. Oh yeah, how. Well, both Palahniuk and Thompson write the way I think, bold, harsh, to the point, with a perfect mix of dark humor and cynicism. And because they are both geniuses.

Shakespeare and Quinn because of all their great ideas, but I neither think nor write like these two.

[RedFW]

Mina Loy

I can never quite make my mind up about the tone of her poems. Sometimes she seems to be mocking her subject and other times she seems very sincere. Her punctuation is reticent, which can give emphasis to certain words and opens her poems up to many different readings.

[TXsocialist]

Karl Marx-

Yea, before that, I blindly supported capitalism....

Noam Chomsky-

I've just begun to read some of his works, which have so far opened my eyes to the societal systems of mass control...

Big Bill Haywood-

One of a few brave souls that fought here in bourgeois-central...

[ovrproofmentalz]

malcolm x, huey newton, kwame nkurmah, mohhammar quadaffi, karl marx, che guevara, marcus garvey, and nelson mandela...

musically - bob marley, peter tosh, anthony b, buju banton, dennis brown, public enemy, dead prez, jeru the damaja, blackstar and krs one

[Pete]

Shakespeare...I alway allude to lady macbeth when i write about america. cant get the blood off their hands.

[suffianr]

Literary ones?

Stephen King. And Roald Dahl.

And The guy who wrote A Parliament of Whores.

[Spartaco]

for me its noam chomsky, howard zinn, gramsci, hermann hesse, bertolt brecht, thomas mann, garcìa marquez, pasolini, bukowski. for poetry its neruda, shelley,wordsworth, and blake.