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Jon Stone
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ESSAY / What is a 'bad' poem exactly?
1.In the simplest terms, a bad poem is either (a) missing something fundamental or (b) possessed of something that offends a sensibility.
The problems with this understanding should be immediately apparent. What, after all, is truly fundamental to an artform which has gone through so many phases and fashions, evolved into so many sub-strains — where the contemporary critics of now-revered figur
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Bad Kid Catullus
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Aquanauts: 1 (Headbooks)
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School of Forgery
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Coin Opera 2
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Battalion
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Sandsnarl
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Dual Wield: The Interplay of Poetry and Video Games
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Unravelanche
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Roll Again: A Book of Games to Play
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I'll Show You Tyrants
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This is probably my favourite book for explaining the enduring function and power of poetic language. Wheelwright's thesis is that metaphor (which he employs as a representative feature of poetic language in general) grants us the ability to "mean mo
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| (from my 100-word review project) Billed as ‘a board game for the impossibly bored’, A Pirate Life is actually a long sequence of prose poems in an arrangement that mimics the layout of a Monopoly-style race game, in that each ends by allotting or de ...more | |
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| (From my 100-word review project) At the core of this slim book is exactly what you’d expect: short, intense poems on eerie nocturnal creatures and cave-dwellers. But as sign-posted by Rachel Bliss’s scrawlingly textured paintings (human eyes in anim ...more | |
"Yosuke Kirihara's dead body is found in an abandoned building, and Detective Sasagaki is unable to solve the case. Never one to give up, this novel traces the lives of the two main suspects over 18 years, with Sasagaki ever hovering in background.
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| Journey Under the Midnight Sun is certainly a page-turner. But why was I turning the pages? It's not a traditional murder mystery, in that the culprits are drawn to the attention of the reader from an early stage and it becomes more of a 'howcatchem' ...more | |
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Hi there -- this version of the book (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...) is attributed to the wrong Jon Stone. Can someone please add the extra
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“The classic psychoanalytical interpretation of la belle indifférence is that it is evidence that an intrapsychic conflict has been converted and kept from its unacceptable conscious expression by the production of a physical symptom – so-called primary gain. Freud was the first to admit that this process of conversion was not always complete.”
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