September 2011
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Summer's Ending on Fear Dream Island
my dreams are alive but have a funny way of proving it: so quick to get sick and bleeding all over themselves in burps. the shape shifting is what really gets to me. i awake without my glasses, the furniture’s been re-arranged, the ocean’s gone sugary and milky white and all my ex-girlfriends arrive at the shores with infant mouths to nourish, kids who aren’t mine, and husbands...
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Hawks Don't Share or Reblog
I was already reading A Moveable Feast when I was visited by two Modernists last weekend, and they got me all riled up again about Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Hemingway.
There’s a part in A Moveable Feast in the chapter titled “Hawks Don’t Share” where Hemingway remarks that in the tumultuous period of desperate drinking after The Great Gatsby was published and before he...
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Giant (Don't Ever Back Up Or Give Them An Inch....
Did you know that William Faulkner was only 5 foot 5 and a half inches tall?
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Other.Poets.Poems
I AM 25
by Gregory Corso
With a love a madness for Shelley
Chatterton Rimbaud
and the needy-yap of my youth
has gone from ear to ear:
I HATE OLD POETMEN!
Especially old poetmen who retract
who consult other old poetmen
who speak their youth in whispers
saying:—I did those then
but that was then
that was then—
O...
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Giancarlo DiTrapano and Blake Butler at 'Vice' →
Blake’s responses to this list are pretty hilarious. Blake’s books There Is No Year and Scorch Atlas are also pretty phenomenal, if you haven’t heard of him/them. Strange creatures: him/them.
8. Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
Blake Butler: Protect it with what, a sword? I mean, I’m...
