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Barton Smock
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
Genre
Influences
family mostly when sad
Member Since
February 2009
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/bartonsmock
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Misreckon
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2014
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the paper dolls have been cutting your hair
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2011
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Grief Of Arm
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2012
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Ghost Arson
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Angel Scene
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2012
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in the asylum we'd sun ourselves with angels
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2013
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mating rituals of the responsibly poor
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2012
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infant*cinema
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Wasp, Gasp
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We stole not the same bread
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2014
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SIMPLE GOD EXITS CHILDHOOD, then a machine and then the actual exits exist
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SIMPLE GOD EXITS CHILDHOOD
Lightning and earthquake feuding in an untouched doom where two angels, birthmark and bitemark, still dream of killing their tattooed sons.
I know this place. Place is a bomb that other bombs find.
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The tattooed sons are in love. Son bitemark doesn’t have a tongue; birthmark does all the ironing. Their dead child speaks to them through a fishhook that is always hot. Read more of this blog post »
SIMPLE GOD EXITS CHILDHOOD
Lightning and earthquake feuding in an untouched doom where two angels, birthmark and bitemark, still dream of killing their tattooed sons.
I know this place. Place is a bomb that other bombs find.
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The tattooed sons are in love. Son bitemark doesn’t have a tongue; birthmark does all the ironing. Their dead child speaks to them through a fishhook that is always hot. Read more of this blog post »
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| The blue of childbirth, of snowfall. Blue the lost tooth of rainwater. Blue as it is pained into aching for ugliness. Blue as a shape that not so much shifts as moves in reverse to reverse. Ama Codjoe’s Bluest Nude is a cleansing work of saturation b ...more | |
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| These holes keep appearing. In my shirt, in the ground. A hole can be almost anything glowing with shame. Aase Berg’s With Deer is dangerous. Especially on Saturdays. Saturdays aren’t real. Johannes Göransson’s translation of With Deer is an exciteme ...more | |
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| This seems invented. Not invented in the sense of being made-up, not in the sense of a tall-tale meant to distract, but invented in the way that a starter gun creates a stray yesterday, in the way that a chapter can absolve closure of its premature e ...more | |
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Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
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| All wrecked attitude and in-house mania, Lara Glenum’s holistically punkish Snow is a fairy tale of reverent perversion as told from the side of two recut mouths. In verse of such unified doubletalk, it hurts to hurt. It hurts to laugh. Glenum is a s ...more | |
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“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
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