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The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover
by
Mark Leidner (Goodreads Author)
Poetry. Ken, the publisher, here. I couldn't be more thrilled to make this book flesh. This collection of aphorisms--concise, eloquent truths--contains so much poetry and passion and deep thinking, I've been caught by single pages for hours. This book is sharp, funny, tragic, irreverent, wise. All beauty. It puts fire in me. I invite you to enjoy that fire, too.
Paperback, 103 pages
Published
September 10th 2011
by Sator Press
(first published August 5th 2011)
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mark leidner is a poet and my favorite person on twitter, just a constant source of amazing little images and aphorisms. i've read this book straight through beginning to end once each night since i got it last week. (which, okay, it's only 104 pages long, with pretty much a single line on each page... but after each one i have to stop and think, and then think some more, and then smile for while... it adds up...)
some of my favorites:
the mountain thinks it's left the earth
writing is beautiful, l...more
some of my favorites:
the mountain thinks it's left the earth
writing is beautiful, l...more
Effortlessly tosses the third eye of a hurricane through a stitch in time. Shades of Poor Richard, Kafka, Wilde, all the clever aphorisms you've read, respectfully recast to prick open unexpected expanses with the thorn of a perfect phrase. "A vote is a prayer without poetry." Amazed this was written by someone I knew five years ago as a young Foxhead aficionado. Five or six LOLs. A dozen yearbook quotes to force on your firstborn. Ample instruction in poetry and perception, war and peace, and t...more
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Sep 18, 2011
Anittah
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Recommends it for:
Insightful literate types
Recommended to Anittah by:
Lee
I think this is a book of poetry? Whatever it is, I enjoyed it. Super-quick read. My favorite three:
he wanted to be a superhero, so he moved to Brooklyn and
became invisible
no food grows in the jungle of genius; only dense, green
entangling hungers
and
anything worth doing is worth taking your lifetime to do
I suppose it is the idea in this last one about which I've been mulling quite a bit recently. This digital age with its instant pleasures has managed, somehow, to circumvent my prowess with marsh...more
he wanted to be a superhero, so he moved to Brooklyn and
became invisible
no food grows in the jungle of genius; only dense, green
entangling hungers
and
anything worth doing is worth taking your lifetime to do
I suppose it is the idea in this last one about which I've been mulling quite a bit recently. This digital age with its instant pleasures has managed, somehow, to circumvent my prowess with marsh...more
Better than Basho, Epictetus or Heraclitus; better than bad Wendell Berry; a little better than "Braided Creek;" not as good as good Wendell Berry, Proverbs, or Ecclesiastes.
I've always felt Mark was something of a font of wisdom, and this proves it.
would recommend to: Mark Leidner, because he's into things that are awesome
http://ounceofcruelty.com/
Awfully, awfully good.
Awfully, awfully good.
Some of these do everything.
A dazzling gaggle of aphorisms by one of the smartest and funniest poets working today. Shining example: "Missing someone is like what the wind feels like to itself."
Aphorisms in the vein of Kafka and Wilde, and almost as good.
I love this book so much I published it.
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