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David Wojnarowicz Memories That Smell Like Gasoline San Francisco: Artspace Books, 1992 and I realize he’s one of those guys that you know absolutely that if you’d met him twenty years earlier you both could have gone straight to heaven … Continue reading →

Indigeneity: Theorized Materialised Billy-Ray Belcourt This Wound is a World: Poems “The Cree Word for a Body like Mine is Weesageechak” its final lines offering a big beginning was once a broad-shouldered trickster who long ago fell from the moon … Continue reading →

Jaya Savige. latecomers. “West end”. I want it to stop here where it began. this gentle aphasia washes over us like fabric softener. I don’t want to follow the simile into a full-blown conceit. But I read on implanting the … Continue reading →

An example from painting applicable to poetry. There’s a legend about a Chinese painter who was asked by the emperor to paint a landscape so pristine that the emperor can enter it. He didn’t do a good job, so the … Continue reading →

DWR trawling through John Williams’s Augustus recorded these on a slip Tautened Tongue Tension The image is particularly haunting because it communicates with a certain eloquence a certain lack of facility with language — a palpable tension. And so for … Continue reading →

Alan Hollinghurst writing in The Guardian on Edmund White’s novel, A Boy’s Own Story Anyone who reads A Boy’s Own Story will be struck by the contrast between a plain, brisk, clear-eyed language in which any boy’s story might be … Continue reading →

If I may, a mapping (inspired by the virtuous and public work of Kathleen Fitzgerald in Generous Thinking) and inspired by some thoughts on the cardinal and digital virtues . . . a foray into the Christian virtues of faith, … Continue reading →

I have been reading through the comment-available publication of Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Generous Thinking and have been led to observe: Are there two empathies? Empathy of feeling and empathy of imagination. And is not reason and critique that which allows the … Continue reading →

Plethora leads … It was inevitable that these new versions of nature would complicate traditional moralities. Conflict, chance, survival, reproduction, the family, sexual satisfaction and death were newly minted words in these stories, quickly shedding some of their more familiar … Continue reading →