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if you would knock at my door / you would hear / a bee pray to god and / the rose take apart the horizon
Absent Things as if They Are Present | Longform
I wanted to share with you this wonderful piece on erasure of select passages in existing text as a legitimate form of creative writing, but I was so taken by this quoted passage of a poem written by erasure.
I can’t imagine how a rose can take apart the horizon, but I understand it intimately.
Source: longform.org
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you see Smith spitting, cursing, and telling an early audience: “Don’t be afraid of me. I’m just a nice little girl.
The Mother Courage of Rock by Luc Sante | The New York Review of Books
An overview of Patti Smith’s career as poet, musician and irresistible animal of a woman.
Posted on January 24, 2012 with 3 notes
Source: nybooks.com
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This CNN update reads almost like a haiku, an eulogy for animals who tasted freedom on the tips of their tongues before being hunted down without mercy.
(via @CNNbrk)
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If it’s important to you to know that the fridge, strictly speaking, was not invented in Sweden,” Paul Muldoon, the magazine’s current poetry editor, said, “then here we have one piece of information. If by the line ‘the Swedes invented the fridge’ you mean that storage of spoilable food in a cold climate might be said as invented in the frigid climate of Sweden, then that’s also fine. It is and is not a fact.
Whose Line Is It, Anyway? | The New York Observer
Much respect and bafflement to the New Yorker whose fact checking department fact-checks poetry, and on occasion, asks the writers to make changes based on the research. If poetry isn’t sacred art, then fact checking is?
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Maya Angelou and Twin Peaks, recording session for Kanye West’s My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy.
(Photo via Complex)
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My body is like a sandcastle. It can only take some many waves.
Paul Rudd Fun Facts, As Gleaned on Two Casual Hangs — Vulture
An exquisite image full of pathos courtesy of Paul Rudd.
I was laid off 2 days before my birthday in 2009, a dismal blessing. I miss health insurance and payroll, but I haven't bought bread since the pink slip because I have time to bake.
Sometimes I'm a serious job hunter, sometimes a serious slacker, but mostly, I'm an underemployed, freelance Jaqueline of many trades including writing and dogsitting. Either way, I scrapbook my finds and activities here for your benefit and amusement.
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