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America, your melting pot is a black hole

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Marco Frey

Channeling Anarchy after Whitman Specimen 4: Wishing America never happened I. Anarchy is a stone untapped “First what do we understand under ‘Anarchism’? Anarchism practical, metaphysical, theoretical, mystical, abstractical, individual, social?” Vladimir Nabakov, Pnin “If you meet the Buddha, kill … Continue reading →

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“the United States that coughs all night and won’t let us sleep”

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Marco Frey

Channeling Anarchy after Whitman Poets to Come “Arouse! for you must justify me.” “One’s-Self I sing, a simple separate person,/ yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.” One’s Self I Sing “A new race copiously appears, with resolute tread, … Continue reading →

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“Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all”

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Marco Frey

Channeling Anarchy through Whitman Specimen 4: The Burden of Witness “The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,”   Song of Myself, 8 “What is absent makes the world what it is.” History of the Always Pain, Jennifer Militello … Continue reading →

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“To find me now will cost you everything.”

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Marco Frey

Channeling Anarchy through Whitman Specimen 1: The Ghost of Whitman In his 1980s poem, “Whitman“, Larry Levis sings the displaced Whitman. By the 80’s The State had taken Whitman and made him “required reading in high schools” only for inhibited … Continue reading →

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