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Dawn Pendergast
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February 2008
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Off Flaw
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2009
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leaves fall leaves
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2011
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My Speaker, She Does Not Know Whom To Float To
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2013
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Croc
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2013
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| Read/listened to it in one day because I accidentally read the wrong book for book club. For all its violence and grotesque humor, I enjoyed it without quite falling in love with it. First, because the language is vivid and lyrical. Second, because t ...more | |
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| A gift from my husband because I *do* like some Murakami... and Part 1 is completely ok. But Part 2 slogged so hard I felt my Friday quickly sinking into mud. I gave up because Fridays are for living, not for burdening oneself with tediously solipsis ...more | |
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| Read in translation at work while in the middle of reading Death Takes Me by Christina Rivera Garza. Pizarnik gives me Baudelaire and Artaud vibes but is also very far away from these texts. More clear-eyed and fierce. More cunning, maybe? My highlig ...more | |
“Men deft men mental men of loving men all men
Vile men virtuous men same men from which men
Sweet and men of mercy men such making men said
Has each man that sees it
Cry as men to the men sensate
Conceptual recognition the men
And their poverty speaking to the men
Is about timeliness men is about
Previous palpability from which
The problematic politics adorable
And humble especially
Young men of sheepish privilege becoming
Sweet new style”
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Vile men virtuous men same men from which men
Sweet and men of mercy men such making men said
Has each man that sees it
Cry as men to the men sensate
Conceptual recognition the men
And their poverty speaking to the men
Is about timeliness men is about
Previous palpability from which
The problematic politics adorable
And humble especially
Young men of sheepish privilege becoming
Sweet new style”
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“For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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