false 24 594 532 true 5623771 read 19 true 794024 currently-reading 43 true 794023 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74975085 to: To Hell With Sleep (Paperback) by Anselm Berrigan
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74972567 to: Slosh Models (Paperback) by Brett Evans
"I don't like when bugs chew thru plastic 6"

I walked past this brick house in Jefferson Parish the other day where someone had written in fat black marker on three bricks in a row "Thank You Jeases"

Brett Evans is doing things with words and thank jeases he is. It's good to wake up. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64103175 to: Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America (Paperback) by E.E. Schattschneider
I read this because it has a well known line often quoted out of context: "The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent." One of the book's insights is that the scope of a political conflict goes some way in determining the outcome, but the rich are over-represented at every point of activity. I especially like this paragraph about nonvoters (the numbers are from the mid-50s):

"Loosely, perhaps we have a sociopolitical community consisting of about sixty million newspaper readers, job holders, income-tax payers, automobile owners, householders, and voters. One the other hand, we have about forty million adults in the community who are less likely to possess these tokens of participation and status. Crudely the scope of the political community corresponds to the social facts of life. If the political distinction between voters and nonvoters corresponds to a social distinction between broadly the name segments of the community, it is the most important datum about the political system, much more important than the distinction between Republicans and Democrats." ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57178437 to: On the Ground: Poems (Paperback) by Fanny Howe
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57178434 to: The Lyrics: Poems (Paperback) by Fanny Howe
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57178429 to: Gone:Poems (New California Poetry) by Fanny Howe
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57178413 to: The Years (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57178368 to: Bread & Fish (Paperback) by Mark Terrill
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57178337 to: The Stories of Paul Bowles (Paperback) by Paul Bowles
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