Seeking Hallucinatory, Gonzo, Cyberpunk-Inflected Poetry Recommendations
I've never found any poetry that resonated with me, which is odd, because I really love the 'micropoetics' of track titles in certain strands of experimental music. There are a few musicians who manage to sporadically put out strangely evocative song titles; I'm drawn to the occult, the metaphysical, and the conspiratorial, filtered through the lens of delirious/psychedelic/gonzo B-movie sci-fi techno-babble.
A few examples:
Oneohtrix Point Never:
- "Gray-Level Objects Describing Bio Layers"
- "In 1980 I Was a Blue Square"
- "Melancholy Descriptions of Simple 3D Environments"
James Ferraro:
- Smoking Out His Majesties UFO
- Dianetic Biodome: Sewer-Scape
- A Movement in the Cenobyte's Journey to 15th Century Verona
Vatican Shadow
- Contractor Corpses Hung Over the Euphrates River
- Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement: Black Magic Cannot Cross Water
Moth Cock - Mineshaft Full of Caspers
Eric Copeland - UFOs Over Vampire City
MESH - Azov Seepage
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Cancer Towers on Holy Road Hi-Way
- Broken Spires at Dead Kapital
I like this stuff so much, I started writing my own track titles for songs that don't actually exist. Eventually, I had amassed so many imaginary track titles that I had to learn to start making music so I could match them to something real.
The closest literary stuff I've found that comes close to evoking this kind of vibe is Ballard, Burroughs, Nick Land's/CCRU's 90s theory fiction, and chunks of Deleuze's writings.
Any poetry recommendations?