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Human Dark With Sugar by Brenda Shaughnessy
This is yet another fantastic book of poems that I have picked up at the Newport Beach Public Library. I am on an extreme run of success! I really liked the use of language on this one–all sorts of strange enjambment and other lyrical twists and turns which made these fairly confessional sounding works very…
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CASE 32: Kyôzan’s Mind and Objective World
Kyôzan asked a monk, “Where do you come from?” The monk said, “I am from Yû Province” Kyôzan said, “Do you think of that place?” The monk said, “I always do.” Kyôzan said, “That which thinks is the mind. That which is thought about is the objective world. Within that are mountains, rivers and the…
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Fleet Foxes Linear Notes
My first memory has always been of me and my mom on a cold grey day down at some beach in Washington, along the puget sound somewhere near Seattle. I would be around two or three years old and we’re with a friend of mine from the neighborhood and his mom. Walking around among the…
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CASE 31: Unmon’s "Pillar"
Unmon, instructing the assembly, said, “The old buddha and a pillar intersect each other. What number of activity is that?” The assembly was silent. He said on their behalf, “Clouds gather over the South Mountain; rain falls on the North Mountain.”
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Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman
Bill Sienkiewicz! I had forgotten how incredibly good this guy was–not only can he out draw, out layout, and just about out art any man alive–he can tell a story! He can use his art to move things along, slow them down, tie them together, and just plan explode the concept of linear thought. Bill…
David Given Schwarm 