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"A tersely fragmented experimental political thriller from the disillusioned wreckage of 60s radicalism, roving from Cuba to the NYC underground, to the wilds of Canada. This is a novel about what is left after ideals collapse and one is left to so..."
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| I read this because I love Brenda Hillman and a friend told me CD Wright had some poems/essays in here about her. I've read some of Wright's poetry before, including her famous Deepstep Come Shining. She was a deep and complicated thinker and tinkere ...more | |
“I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the concept of transcendence is based on a misreading of creation. With all respect to heaven, the scene of the miracle is here, among us. The eternal as an idea is much less preposterous than time, and this very fact should seize our attention.”
― The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
― The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
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“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”
― On Certainty
― On Certainty
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
― Faust, First Part
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How He Got His Red Coat
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updated Jul 05, 2011 05:19PM
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poem, previously published in the Sonora Review
Tiny Stories About Sons
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updated Feb 21, 2011 05:12PM
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The last poem series in my manuscript 'The Sea is White'. Previously published in Little Red Leaves http://littleredleaves.com/
Anne Carson's Plainwater: A Review
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A creative-review. First published in Can We Have Our Ball Back?
Revelations
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Early poem. Originally published in the Indiana Review
Negatives
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Early poem. First published in the Sonora Review
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