Imagine
By Tom Fallon
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Tom Fallon's Imagine points to the ancient human questions "why creation" and "what is the meaning of life." It is a prose and free verse literary epic of human beings on a small planet in the mystifying great creation that is beautiful, frightening and astonishing. The epigraphs "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?"
Tom Fallon
Tom Fallon, Through a Stranger's Eyes, 1978 & NOW, Works on Paper, 1976-2006, Poetry and Antipoverty, 2007, and Creation Now With Words, 2020, experimenting w literary form, term word creation, no traditional poetry.A sensitive child w meltdowns running streets burning fields Brockton Massachusetts Tom resist 1st grade school discipline teacher & Berenice Stevenson separate him fr classmates to color rabbit outline. Family move to Auburn Maine, Rumford Maine, continue best school artist & as hs soph sophomore create sports cartoons for small town newspaper. Boredom w high school English visit public library discover Men of Art by Thomas Craven stimulated by great art revolution of late 19th early 20th Century. Late Fifties drop out Rhode of Island School of Design & St. Johns College Annapolis Maryland enlist US Air Force station outside New York City Mitchell Air Force Base checked out Ezra Pound's ABC of Reading NYC library branch lead to create w words at primitive level, view foreign films Ingmar Bergman, Akiri Kurosawa others rundown theater off base, marry & divorce.Experience nervous breakdown w period in mental hospital Tom begins unstable life direction in Rumford Maine town part time jobs continue create primitive writing, why do I exist, marry 1960 religious girl Maine support uneven temperament & writing. Discover early Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance support of Lee Sharkey, Mark Melnicove, Constance Hunting encourage explore literary form w complete freedom. Publish various college & independent literary magazines participate in wild MWPA readings, editor Maine Times lib independent newspaper, drama A Dying Animal staged Atma Theater Boston w "Pregnant Man 1" publish Red Dust NYC & 1st book Through A Strangers Eyes w MWPA.Sixties Seventies Tom visit New York City exposed wild happenings movement Off Off Broadway theater Cafe Cino, La Mama ETC, Judson Poets Theater w LeRoi Jones, Sam Shepard, Rosalyn Drexler, Jean Claude van Itallie find modern jazz Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton experimental classical music John Cage, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, George Crumb, Charles Ives &cMarianne Moore w Donald Hall Paris Review "I disliked the term poetry for any but Chaucer's or Shakespeare's or Dante's. I do not now feel quite my original hostility to the word since it is a convenient almost unavoidable term for the thing (although hardly for me - my observations, experiments in rhythm or exercises in composition). What I write, as I said before, could only be called poetry because there is no other category in which to put it." NOW, Works on Paper, 1976-2006, Poetry and Antipoverty publish.Writers through years - Shakespeare, Keats odes - Walt Whitman open psychic & literary - Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane's The Bridge, William Carlos Williams' Paterson, Marianne Moore, Charles Olson, e. e. cummings, Dick Higgins, &c.
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