Michael Lally
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Arts
- Occupation: poet/actor/etc.
- Location: New Jersey : United States
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About Me
MY LIFE 2 (this won't accept tags or line breaks so "/" stands for a line break and "//" for a stanza break) When I was 10,/ I thought I was "Irish," / even though I was/ born in the USA.// When I was 20,/ I thought I was "Black," / even though my skin / is pink & freckled, / my hair is straight,/ and I have no/ African ancestry.// When I was 30,/ I thought I was "queer,"/ even though I was/ married and had/ two children, and/ all my fantasies/ & obsessions & com-/ pulsions & attractions/ were and had always/ been about women.// When I was 40,/ I thought I was a/ "movie star," even/ though the movies/ were terrible, and/ I was terrible in/ them, and almost/ no one knew them,/ or who I might/ have been in them.// When I was 50,/ I thought I was/ "enlightened," even/ though I wasn't.// But of course I was/ and am—enlightened,/ as I was and still am/ —an Irish-Black-/ Queer-Movie-Star.
Interests
Favorite Movies
- Some essentials: The Cool World (Shirley Clark's)
- On the Waterfront
- Casablanca
- The Third Man
- Seven Samarai
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- The Godfather
- The Godfather II
- A Hard Day's Night
- Once
- The Commitments
- The Maltese Falcon
- Out of the Past
- The Quiet Man
- The Sorrow and the Pity
- Holiday
- Oklahoma
- Grosse Point Blank
- Billy Elliot
- Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
- Michael Clayton
- Across the Universe
- American Violet
Favorite Music
- Some of my essential musicmakers: Louis Armstrong
- Sidney Bechet
- Fats Waller
- Glen Miller
- Artie Shaw
- Lester Young
- Thelonious Monk
- Bill Evans
- Ahmad Jamal
- Frank Sinatra
- Aran Copland
- Clifford Brown
- Miles Davis
- John Coltrane
- Eric Dolphy
- Charles Mingus
- Chuck Berry
- Elvis Presely
- Buddy Holly
- Roy Orbison
- Lambert Hendricks & Roth
- Aretha Franklin
- Otis Redding
- John Lennon
- The Beatles
- The Animals
- Bob Dylan
- Marvin Gaye
- Van Morrison
- Luscious Jackson
- Sade
- Sinead O'Connor
- Norah Jones
- Glen Hansard
- Lisa Hannigan
- Terence Winch
- Miles Lally
- Caitlin Lally
Favorite Books
- Some of my essential books (by dead authors
- too many friends among live ones
- I might inadvertently leave some out): Dante's LA VITA NUOVA
- Walt Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS
- James Joyce's A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
- Rilke's THE NOTEBOOKS OF MALTA LAURIDS BRIGGE
- William Carlos Williams' SPRING AND ALL and PATERSON
- Blaise Cendrars' COMPLETE POEMS and SKY
- Jean Rhys' THE COMPLETE NOVELS
- Zora Neale Hurston's THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
- William Saroyan's THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE
- Martha Gelhorn's THE FACE OF WAR
- Frank O'Hara's THE COLLECTED POEMS
- Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD: THE ORIGINAL SCROLL and THE SCRIPTURE OF THE GOLDEN ETERNITY
- Hubert Selby Jr.'s LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN and THE SONG OF THE SILENT SNOW
- James Schuyler's COLLECTED POEMS
- Ted Berrigan's THE COLLECTED POEMS
- James Haining's A QUINCY HISTORY
- Joe Brainard's I REMEMBER
- Tim Dlugos' POWERLESS
- Roberto Bolano's THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES
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