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Jack Blare

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in Georgetown, Canada

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Poetry, Contemporary, Psychology

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Lydia Lunch, W.S. Burroughs, Jim Carroll, William Blake, Charles Baude ...more

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Jack Blare is a Canadian writer, poet and musician who has been writing since age 16, first for the school paper, then a local zine called The Undercroft.
That same year his work was published in a national compilation/contest called Mists of Morning winning second place. He went on to win several more national and local competitions.

Jack went to York U for professional writing but dropped out before a massive strike. Instead he studied print journalism in Sheridan college for two years, contributing to the defunct Sheridan Sun.

His last two years of college were spent in a General Arts and Sciences program with a very heavy focus on literature.

In 2014 he self published his first poetry collection Popular Medication for Kids, followed by rou ...more

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	People & Concrete 4.97 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Popular Medication for Kids: The ascent and descent of a teenage drug addict in the sundown of Western Society it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bruise In Bloom it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Rome Burning by Jack Blare (Goodreads Author), Dave Brown (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Impersonating Emotion it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carcinogeneration it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silver Chain it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intentional Insanity it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stained Glass Delusion it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Atrophy of Entropy by Jack Blare (Goodreads Author), Jasmine Hirst (editor), Lydia Lunch (Goodreads Author) (photographer) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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After several years I'm pleased to say Goodreads finally recognizes me as the author of my own works. I published poetry primarily. Somehow I wrote 12 of the things. AI killed the content writer and copyeditor. Machines lack the spark of life necessary for true creation. You will find no AI content here or in any of my work. I did most of it before AI even existed.

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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
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“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.”
― Philip K. Dick

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