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Harley Claes

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Born

Detroit

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Poetry, Philosophy, Thriller

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Anais Nin, Vladimir Nabokov, Lenore Kandel

Member Since

June 2013

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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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	Seven Story Hotel Issue One by Cori Hart, Adam Lehrer, Esoteric Eddie 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings	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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	Cough Syrup Magazine Issue 2 YESOD Summer of Lyzergic Bliss by Donovan Martinez, Harley Claes (Goodreads Author), Stuart Livner 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	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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Let's Get Digital: How to Self-Publish, and Why You Should

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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

tags: kansas-city-to-saint-louis

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“The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!”
― Allen Ginsberg

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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

tags: memory-gardens

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“who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism”
― Allen Ginsberg, Collected Poems, 1947-1980

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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.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

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