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Alex Boyd
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Excerpt: Dust, More Lives of the Poets by Ray Robertson
In 2016, Ray Robertson published Lives of the Poets (With Guitars), essays on the lives of different musicians, reviewed on Goodreads as “essays every bit as rollicking and energetic as many of the performers discussed.” There’s now a follow-up book called Dust: More Lives of the Poets (With Guitars) and I asked Ray if anything surprised him in researching the book, particularly if there was an
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The Least Important Man
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“When he stumbles in the trench / his hands cut into mud like dough. / Surrounded by puddles, rats, lice." -- The Baker Signed up, 1914”
― Making Bones Walk
― Making Bones Walk
“Blood is shy, all day hiding in you and asking the same worried questions.”
― The Least Important Man
― The Least Important Man
“As the late Edward W Said wrote after the attack on the World Trade Center, ‘Western humanism is not enough: we need a universal humanism.’ I agree with that. The question is how to get it, and my own view is that it can’t be had unless we raise our demands on ourselves a long way beyond decorating our lives with enough cultivation to make the pursuit of ambition look civilized.”
― Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
― Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
“That we are mostly quarks and water, but still feel joy is a bona fide miracle. Blood hymns in sunshine. Joy plunges its little dagger of shivers over and over, into our hearts. Joy is the surprise, after the surprise, after apocalyptic narratives. I’m for joy getting its own Nobel Prize.”
― Deepfake Serenade
― Deepfake Serenade
