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Howard Barker’s Poetic Seduction

13Aug08

I just bought and finished Howard Barker’s brief collection of poems titled “The Breath of the Crowd,” and I am utterly enrapt. Austere poetry such as Barker’s truly displays genius at its most fine-tuned; finesse and an impressive command of the english language emerge when one is succinct, as he is and as most (if not [...]


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People are People: The Concomitant Importance of Photographic Process and Immediacy

22Jul08

People are people. As foreign as our ancestors may seem to us at times, they suffered from the same idiosyncratic deficiencies that morally compromise us, the children of technocratic modernity, and leave us dialed into an oddly prescribed fox-trot; we walk the same streets, just different incarnations. In other words, no matter how far we [...]


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