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03.16.05
Is there any excuse for my newfound level of update-delay? There is, dear readers, not. Hands to the heavens, I thank you & this round’s contributors thusly for your inexhaustible patience & support. This update features poems from Jon Curley, Norman Finkelstein, Peter O’Leary, & CultSoc newcomer Jen Tynes; I provided the picks myself. Power […]
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He Made Me Like Fire and Like Light
Whose radical amazements guide our ascensions & our downfalls? Whose sickness with experience do we protect with mythic epoxies? On the king’s head the wing-hat balanced, its span arms-wide. Awake until dawn but no part of the dream remembered, not even the evil embodied in it. What tables do we consecrate for the daily sacrifices? […]
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{O. Eu. H.}
The soul’s delved spectacle. That network. Its secret society. Roots beeted with blood it radiates around, in a platinum of darkness. A redness suspected but esoteric to you. Coral-hard tendrils, fragile-looking but living, so flexible — a slow-motion yoga of inversion. Porphyry taproots the system alludes to quaff minerals out of the earth the soul […]
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Serials
“the humbler one feels” Contained friction, they make a box every season, spreading over the property’s true lines to deep country perimeters. The majority of hive thefts are also never traced or solved although one man will slip anything under his unfolded forearms, for the chance to be less fearful. “what is to hinder my […]
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Zach Barocas, contributor
Suggested Reading Revelations, photographs & ephemera by Diane Arbus Night Lights, poems by Jane Augustine Leave the Room to Itself, poems by Graham Foust The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater, photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard Suggested Listening Fast Carts, Danger, Fire, & Knives CDEP, Aesop Rock Complete Blue Note Recordings of Elvin Jones CDs, Elvin […]
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Maxims and Proposals: A Translator’s Attempt at Cultural History
1. Beware the eyes of Mars. 2. Eyes did not have sensual reactions with that woman. 3. The gory that was grease was the gander that had roamed. 4. When in roam, do as the geese do. 5. People in gas houses should not stow bones. 6. Now in the winner of our disconnect. 7. […]
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Mihail Sebastian’s Auto-Confession
Mihail Sebastian (1907-1945) was a Rumanian Jew and novelist who witnessed his Bucharest literary circle, including Mircea Eliade and E.M. Cioran, dissolve into a fanatical collective of Iron Guard supporters, the brutal Fascist organization spearheaded by Nae Ionescu. His Journal was published in 1998. When I glower about the “transnational” I could mean Transnistria. When […]
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TRACK## Came with broken hearts came from all points of the compass rose or compass star 5×5 6×6 7×7 Came to a bridge. # Crossed the bridge into the city Held each other upon the bridge Kissed with the city all before them Took their picture. # Coming from wherever this foreign couple Tourists or […]