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Mark’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Mark Folse
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Drunk Bigots Blowing Shit Up
My German and French Acadian people, who arrived 50 years before the “American” revolution, were sold to “America” a century after they arrived here, unconsulted, along with the slaves in the fields and the “merciless Indian Savages” who showed the founders true democracy and were crushed for it. All just another colonial commodity to the U.S.
I was raised on the revised pledge of allegiance, the
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Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina
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A Howling in the Wires: An Anthology of Writing from Postdiluvian New Orleans
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Carry Me Home
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Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina
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"Bro! Hardly fucked by Fate, but rather hashtag blessed for this translation that gives zero shits. Our swole, sword bearing, son-of-a-bitch comes out swinging. Beowulf brings the beatdown, batters beasts, and bests the bringers of blood. Raring to be"
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"What an epic should be... a valiant epic that will relish the joys of poetry at the hands of the translator who has made it possible once more. I enjoyed reading it many times but a free-fall into the chasm of poetry was even more interesting and enl"
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"Bro! Maria Dahvana Headley has turned an esteemed classic into a fast, powerful 4D Dolby Surround action extravaganza that exudes the joy of storytelling. I've always wanted read "Beowulf", an Old English epic poem from the Early Middle Ages consisti"
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A modern romp through Beowulf I was cautioned against this one by a friend whose judgment I trust and also by Beowulf scholars I have watched on YouTube lately who said it was more of a poet riffing on Beowulf than a translation. I cross checked a do ...more |
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“I have weathered the storm, I have beaten out my exile.”
― Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
― Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
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“A poem should improve on the blank page.”
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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“Let us take arms against this sea of stupidities—”
― Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
― Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
