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Harley Claes

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Born

Detroit

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https://linktr.ee/harleyclaes

Genre

Poetry, Philosophy, Thriller

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Anais Nin, Vladimir Nabokov, Lenore Kandel

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HARLEY CLAES is a writer and entrepreneur from Detroit, Michigan. Her work is often anachronistic, surreal, and philosophical. She runs the Beat-inspired press ANGELICAL RAVINGS. Her work has appeared 60+ times in literary magazines. To date she has self-published 7 books.

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	Love Inertia: Letters of a Long Lost Love Affair 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2018	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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	Pity The Poetics 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2017	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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100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists

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“The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

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“The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!”
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“he threw up his hands
and wrote the Universe dont exist
and died to prove it”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

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“who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism”
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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
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