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Joseph Barjack

Goodreads Author

Born

in The United States

Website

http://www.rhinologicpress.com

Genre

Poetry, Nonfiction

Influences

Brett Gurewitz, Greg Graffin, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, and ...more

Member Since

February 2008

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/josephbarjack

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Born in 1982.
Alive since then and surprised I've made it this far. ...more

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Average rating: 4.33 · 3 ratings · 2 reviews · 2 distinct works

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Quotes by Joseph Barjack (?)

“Question authority... Then ignore it! ”
― Joseph Barjack

tags: anti-authoritarian, diy, inspirational, thinking

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“The less people know of your existence the more shit you can get away with.”
― Joseph Barjack

tags: inspirational

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“For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: appreciation, inspiration, power-of-music

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“Question authority... Then ignore it! ”
― Joseph Barjack

tags: anti-authoritarian, diy, inspirational, thinking

6 likes

“The less people know of your existence the more shit you can get away with.”
― Joseph Barjack

tags: inspirational

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¡ POETRY ! — 22593 members — last activity Dec 24, 2025 01:37PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Artist's Alley — 5 members — last activity Feb 13, 2009 03:43PM
Some of us don't have the big business resources to let people know what creative shenanigans we're up to. So artists, let us know what you're working ...more

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