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  <title><![CDATA[The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written for John Ashcroft's Secret Self]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;p&gt;The bold and surprising imagination of Joe Wenderoth is everywhere present in these essays moving fluidly between aesthetics, obscenity, America, censorship, and the craft of poetry. Fans of his previous work know he is one of those rare figures who travels between pop culture, poetry, and cultural critique, and all will be thrilled to find his uncompromising and inimitable sensibility on brilliant display.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joe Wenderoth&lt;/b&gt; grew up near Baltimore. His books include the novel &lt;i&gt;Letters To Wendy's&lt;/i&gt; (Verse Press, 2000) and the poetry collections &lt;i&gt;It Is If I Speak&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Disfortune&lt;/i&gt; (Wesleyan, 2000, 1995). &lt;i&gt;Agony: A Proposal&lt;/i&gt; is forthcoming from Verse Press. He teaches at the University of California Davis, where he lives with his wife and daughter.&lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Joe Wenderoth's existence in academia oppresses him. I think that there are impartial emotions in the straight-ahead essays in this book that make them irrelevant/unconsumable. I read them after reading Barthes, and it was . . . difficult. I really do think that he wrote them drunk.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22507426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terrific inventive stuff. Wenderoth blends an often naive voice with a dazzling, illuminating perceptiveness about what is normally hidden in the assumptions of American life. Essays on the Andy Griffith Show, campus Christians, and the Road Runner are astonishing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;(The) unthinking, unmoving coyote, successfully alone with his desired object, is never the subject of the cartoon, and we must be grateful for that.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though I don't think every essay worked, the ones that did, especially the one on MLK are enough for me to give it full marks]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The essay about jesus having a vagina, shocked me, and I do not shock. It made me laugh too.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just never got into it.]]></body>
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