J.D. Nelson
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"J. D. Nelson is one of the most prolific poets that I know or know of. He produces poems as if possessed; and in a way he is – channeling the “ghostly onehead” or as Gysin and Burroughs called it, the Third Mind. In the blank spaces between lines and"
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"Nelson makes use of spontaneity, surrealism, the cut-up method, and disparate influences literary and life-based (the title is taken from a phrase in "The Cloud of Unknowing," a very old anonymously-authored document of Christian mysticism but the fi"
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world worm three” and “a pile of pie! noon in on it” are two of my favorite couplets in "in ghostly onehead," a book of extraordinary poetry by J.D. Nelson. It’s a volume meant to be absorbed through one’s pores, rather than decoded, a shap" Read more of this review » |
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“we live 24 minutes too late and that is viewed from the right side”
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“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
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“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.”
― Deadeye Dick
― Deadeye Dick

“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers. ”
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“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative”
― Naked Lunch
― Naked Lunch