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After dinner, Andy and I stopped by a bookstore that was next to St. Mark’s Comedy Club. Unorganized, lots of underground poetry, ended up getting “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and a preface to Plato. I asked the guy if they had any Ed Sanders (his Tales of Beatnick Glory shaped my sense of history of this neighborhood). They had that same book, signed,
... See more“In the Western mind, creativity has for centuries been broken into two spheres – Great Art – for that read white, male artists with wealthy and powerful patrons who have been able to dedicate themselves to the sphere of creating in rarefied studios, without dirtying their hands in the world. And craft – anything associated with women, queer,
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The two big city libraries that I’ve had occasion to frequent, the one in Boston and
Jillian Hess • 5 Love Notes
Danny had a parrot named Fucker. And besides dealers and hookers, Danny only had two visitors to his house—his mother and his parole officer. The parrot didn’t have many words or sentences to blurt out, because neither did Danny. So his parole officer would drop in, or his mother might bring him a casserole, and Fucker would say one of two things:
... See moreTyrant Books • Essays and Fictions
Do you know what a poem is, Esther?'
'No, what?' I would say. '
A piece of dust.'
Then, just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, 'So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you're curing. They're dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.'
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