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Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
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Richard Wells
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The Big Beats - NY and San Francisco, Bly, Lorca, Levertov, Rothenberg
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Somuchanger
wrappedin aflag
carryingagun and bible
Somanyself-styledJohn Brownsrighteousandragingoncurb sidesstreet cornersgrassy knolls
insideauditoriumsarenasliving rooms
shouting at screenspoking keyboardssmashing glass
locking loading aiming firing
Whathave welostthatdrivesusso?
Truthexpands
Fearcontracts
Angermeetsanger
withguns and drumsanddrones
untilthe poet's
blood dimmed tide
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"Oh, for fucks sake," he says, closing his Kindle and wishing he could throw it over the balcony. Here is a book that's 97% a brilliant story of three sisters, their relationship, and their relationships with their partners and very few friends in an ...more |
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“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
― The Jungle
― The Jungle
“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.”
― Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
― Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
“Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.”
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