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Joe Deany-Braun
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The United States
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Jean Giono, Robert Lax
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January 2021
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https://www.goodreads.com/deany-braun
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Men Women Dogs Flowers Chocolate Travel Death Love Madness Tradition Sex Dragons
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| Where to begin? Bestial, beloved, swift, strange, vast, immediate, requisite, limited, uncompromising, uncanny, unfinishable. I feel a sort of ache in my chest for the folks here suggesting that the work is flippant or underdeveloped, as though linea ...more | |
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| I've been thinking about Black Oxford's review of this book for years. His dismissal of Mander on the grounds that language is technology ("We can’t criticise it without becoming even more dependent upon it") has always rubbed me the wrong way. But i ...more | |
"Before he became caricatured as a jolly old elf slugging coke with polar bears and doling out petroleum-based chachkis faster than Am*z*n, Santa was an itinerant wanderer, a Christian mystic, a tang dynasty style poet in exile questioning his faith. "
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"My friend, this body is made of energy compacted and whirling." The mythopoeic men's movement shouldn't eclipse the profound sentience, rhythmic instinct, and cultural openness of Bly's earlier collections. (It does cast a shadow, but I think that's ...more |
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| The mythopoeic tenor of this work—the timefulness of it, to borrow from Marcia Bjornerud—really does it for me, in the way that cairns do for the traveler in the wilds. Recurrence, reverence, open water, open sky. Reading Drift Gestures is like stand ...more | |
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| A fittingly unruly spread of Huidobro's work, translated with remarkable & precise imagination by Jonathan Simkins. In a climate of amoral artifice and waning attention, Huidobro via Simkins is a balm of a battlecry. ...more | |
“This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. His nesting places - the activities that are intimately associated with boredom - are already extinct in the cities and are declining in the country as well. With this the gift for listening is lost and the community of listeners disappears. For storytelling is always the art of repeated stories, and this art is lost when the stories are no longer retained.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“I am saying then, that literacy—the mastery of language and the knowledge of books—is not an ornament, but a necessity. It is impractical only by the standards of quick profit and easy power. Longer perspective will show that it alone can preserve in us the possibility of an accurate judgement of ourselves and the possibilities of correction and renewal. Without it, we are adrift in the present, in the wreckage of yesterday, in the nightmare of tomorrow.”
― A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural
― A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural