Category: Books
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Night, heat, stasis, change
Last night remained hot – not very hot, but hot enough to reproduce that feeling of endless night, of I’ll-never-get-to-sleep, where faint noises (not traffic – something electrical? an air conditioner a block away?) and the pillow, which is only blessedly cool for a moment when you change to another part of it, create a…
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Ruined by a book
It is fascinating but slightly disturbing to look through the e-books available for free through hacker websites. The offerings are linked to what is available on respectably capitalist sales sites, of course – the most popular are rarely well-written, generally non-fiction, books that purport to tell the ambitious and the desperate how to change their…
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Difficult poetries
Ha, well, then! – two days after writing about poetry that might seem too difficult (Language Poets, Temblor), I got a copy of Dylan Thomas’ Death of the King’s Canary, his bizarre murder mystery pastiche, complete with parodies of individual ‘difficult’ poets/poems. Very fun, very obnoxious, fairly silly… Admittedly most of the poets parodied have…
Paul Attinello 