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06.18.06
For all practical purposes, it’s summer here at CultSoc headquarters but the heat brings no slowing of activity. We’ve drummed up a first-rate selection of poems & prose for your pleasured perusal: Joel Bettridge, Norman Finkelstein, Michael Heller, Joseph Massey (who also provided this update’s picks), Michael Prasil, & Philip Jenks are back to welcome […]
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Joseph Massey, contributor
Suggested Reading Platinum Blonde, poems by Michael Carr The Path to the Sea, poems by Thomas A. Clark Deviant Propulsions, poems by C.A. Conrad United States, poems by Dan Featherston You Being You by Proxy, poems by Justin Marks Birds for Example, poems by Jess Mynes Steam, poems by Sandra Simonds Here’s to You, collaborative […]
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05.15.06
The CultSoc is proud to take part in Erika Howsare & Jen Tynes’ Don’t You Have a Map?, a sort of epistolary exchange appearing at various websites & blogs. We’re hosting No. 6 here & encourage you to connect w/the previous five installments. Our next full update will feature work from Burt Kimmelman, Robert Murphy,Michael […]
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03.29.06
Among the pleasures of being an aggregate quarterly is that it gives time for contributors to gather their goods. While putting this update together, I thought it might be best to hold a few things back as insurance, sleeved aces for the summer update. But my enthusiasm got the best of me & so this […]
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Sentences
You want so much to know when knowing is nothing, when you are the one I least know. You want a name. You want a word, and with that, the word returning to cancel nothing I know.
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Part of Me Belongs Forever to the Fire
Part of me belongs forever to the fire For I am a spark of the flame thereof. Beyond the business of the world, part of me is burning And burned there fiercely before I was born. Fatherless and motherless, the orphaned spark Finally fell from an infinite height Until finally finite, it passed into the […]
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Zach Barocas, contributor
Suggested Reading The Goldfinches of Baghdad, poems by Robert Adamson Vectors and Smoothable Curves, essays by William Bronk In Search of a Lost Ladino, Marcel Cohen A Critical Cinema 5, interviews by Scott MacDonald Depth Theology, poems by Peter O’Leary Invisible Green, essays byDonald Revell The End of Rude Handles, poem by Jen Tynes Suggested […]
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Poem with Breakfast and Perjury
This poem blows so as to make a building creak. So as to make a building sway and maybe break. A few twigs in the grass that I thought could be rungs for your ladder: Here. Words in the mouth in the way that the mouth is a thief. I kneel in prim light and […]
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Metamorphosis
A drop of water disappears A fusion, the glow of fire lays aside The air suffused with light The body glorified with life Dissolves in its evolution to resurrection