"I can write a poem and read it to my friends or pass it around to my friends. But I write a poem to publish the poem, even if I don’t publish very much. I don’t write it thinking of my friends, or thinking only of the words and the concepts of the poem. I think of the words and the concepts of the poem as a poem to be published in the poetry world, in a world where there are people who like to read poems in English. In that sense, I am writing with Percey Shelley, I am writing with Philip Larkin.." [full text here]
>Jimmie Durham, Jimmie Durham - Poesiealbum 209, 1985.Book, ink, paper, 21.5 x 12.5 cm, 31 p., language : German, author : Jimmie Durham, publisher : Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin.
>Jimmie Durham, Snack bar variations, 2005.Text.