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profile pic of my shoe, in which our dear late cat puked one morning...

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@katpburke She covered objections like this in a footnote (but then why not amend the essay?), but - Hogg is not a later novel. Only small revisions were made to the 1973 manuscript. And "realist"? "Pornotopia" - Delany's preferred term for the setting - is more like a parallel dimension.

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@prolpo Miss you on here (one of the only reasons I've hung around). Would still love to publish some of your poems in my new mag! Third issue out next month.

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Italo Calvino was born in Cuba

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@bartlebytaco yes to beer, tho I'm gonna be scrambling like a madman this month - car died Friday on I-95 in Connecticut - motor shot - hauled off to salvage yard yesterday - need new (used) car but need to raise money -

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Go All the Way

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rocks off

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but maybe gun to my head forced to pick I'd say "Maggot Brain"

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Maggot Brain

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

What's the best opening track on any album ever recorded?

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@creepingmraxist Marianne Moore (especially the early books), H.D., Laura Riding, Williams, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Jack Spicer, John Wieners, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen - all great poets

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@creepingmraxist Philip Whalen - midway between the SF Renaissance and the Beats - is a great poet.

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@bartlebytaco Wow, you didn't like The Merchant of the Four Seasons? I dunno, I'm a fanboy, so my recs wouldn't carry any weight.

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@svenllama Misogynist? Yep. Incel? Doubt many guys in the 60s fucked more people (women and men) than Mick!

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@restorativeprax @hotdamhistorian Delany's takedown of The Dispossessed is well worth a read.

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@hotdamhistorian @johnoconnell836 Everybody's gonna say Dhalgren is his masterpiece - for my money, that honor goes to The Einstein Intersection.

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@hotdamhistorian Terry Bisson: Fire on the Mountain

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@melnickjeffrey1 not a fan, either - but I'm very very grateful for this, which makes me cry every time - https://t.co/mP8zkXwX9F

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these books are hideous

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happy birthday to my all-time favorite country singer, Gary Stewart - https://t.co/2enW6VXrGM

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https://t.co/Is7JfIp4W7

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@Kulambq All (except for Tim Berne imo) great records. But you could easily make a wholly different list of records just as great.