Daniel Cooper Clark

Clark starting writing as soon as he could master the art of holding a pencil. His first scribblings were of course incomprehensible. The alphabet came next. He delighted in forming letter combinations that made no sense to anyone else but fascinated him. As his vocabulary grew, young Clark created nonsense verses inspired by Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky." He insisted they weren't meaningless but secret codes useful for gaining entrance into a secret world. The Beat poets (Ginsberg, Snyder,etc.) were his next model, followed by any number of literary heroes and heroines. William Blake and Emily Dickinson guided him into transcendence. Once there, at the feet of his guru, the Sanskrit poems of Vaishnava Hindus (Rupa Goswami et. al.) moved him deeply. He did a translation of the Bhagavad Gita, available here. The rest is mystery, so to speak.