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Out of Work Shamans vs. the Mall
Should Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer have blown up a Waldenbooks?
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Poetry, Fascism, and Imagination
Psycho-materialism against a spiritualizing tendency in US poetry
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Himself the Ghost of His Own Father
A special Bloomsday/Fathers Day post on Ulysses, synchronicity, and Bass Pale Ale
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Bernadette Mayer's "Mimeo Argument"
A brief essay from 1982 defending DIY production methods and aesthetics
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"State Verse Culture" & the Poet as Public Servant
Some thoughts while reading Amy Paeth's "The American Poet Laureate: A History of US Poetry and the State"
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Third Minds Emerging
Psychic Intersections and William Burroughs' "The Ticket That Exploded"
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After a While You Tell the Walls
On Value, Alienation, and Alchemy in Michael Mann’s Thief
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The Plot to Destroy Poetry?
Reflections on Publishing and the Idea of "Literary Exceptionalism"
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The Anti-Careerist
On fame, refusal, and the life of actor/director Timothy Carey
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The Ghost Mine Explodes
Toward a Psycho-Materialist Poetics
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"Another Dream, Another Dollar"
On John Cassavetes, money, and the spirit of Cosmo Vitelli
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