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April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Peter Markus’s The Singing Fish

“We each of us brothers took up a fist full of nails and a hammer into each one of our…

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April 19, 2019October 22, 2025 - Archives, Poetry, Reading, Writing

The Night Was Curiously Mild, by Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Feeling the nausea rising, he ran out into the courtyard and vomited on a dwarf palm tree. —Michel Houellebecq  …

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April 19, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The creative impulse, Eros breathing and dreaming within us, is radical to the core.”

Happy birthday, Rikki Ducornet! 76, today! Addressing “our culture’s disdain for the artist,” Rikki Ducornet, in my podcast with her…

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April 18, 2019 - Uncategorized

“Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.”

Happy birthday, Kathy Acker! Here are some quotes from her writing. “At a certain point I realized that the ‘I’…

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April 18, 2019April 18, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Reading, Writing

“Death and indestructible existence / In that Jazz corner of life”

Happy birthday, Bob Kaufman! Here are some of his poems.   Walking Parker Home Sweet beats of jazz impaled on…

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April 18, 2019October 22, 2025 - Archives, Books, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Only a Cry Absent Its Mouth, by Tyrone Williams

Juxtaposition and parataxis are key techniques of composition across the traditional genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. The former refers…

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April 17, 2019October 22, 2025 - Archives, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Bird Watching, by Marjorie Welish

Voiceover conversant with Before During After    as much a screwdriver that made    impersonating Red Yellow Blue auteur the glorifying test…

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April 16, 2019October 22, 2025 - Archives, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Two Poems, by Andrew Joron

  The Contraries Circle’s motion goes / against all endpoints. Rare area / roar. Space, a massless rigidity / /…

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April 15, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

Happy birthday, Henry James! Here are some quotes from his writing. “We work in the dark—we do what we can—we…

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April 15, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.”

R.I.P., Gene Wolfe. Here are some quotes from his writing. “No man has a home unless he is master of…

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