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J.S.A. Lowe

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March 30

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	DOE: A Lyric Novella it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008 — 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
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Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

by Frank Bidart

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J.S.A. Lowe is starting Half-Light: i always forget how fucking spooky frank is. and how antinomian. i don't know his process or how it is he comes to see things on the page the way he does, but it's singular and tonic and bracing, practically an antidote to everyone's else slavish narrative gestures and political performances. if bidart is performing anything it's just to be deeply creepy and upsetting Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart progress:	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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J.S.A. Lowe is 60% done with Beauty and the West Chamber [东邻西厢]: continues to wreck me in all the best ways—i cannot believe no one knows this novel, can't believe it hasn't been properly translated, can't believe we have to get the censored panels from winslow's WEIBO, by someone named "jojo" who by their own admission can't read either CN or EN. the scanlation is an dog's breakfast, the art is incandescently gorgeous, the locations & operas HAVE FOOTNOTES bc yaoi is educational! Beauty and the West Chamber [东邻西厢] by Royalacg progress:	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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― J.S.A. Lowe, DOE: A Lyric Novella

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“From early on, we loved the broken-hearted,
And knew that home-life wasn't made for us.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva

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“人烧成了灰，成分就跟磷灰石差不多，并没有什么值得敬畏的，为什么我们要把它当回事？为什么每年头尾都有个年节作为始终，为什么勾搭别人上床之前先得有个告白和压马路的过程？为什么合法同居除了有张证之外，还得邀请亲朋好友来做一个什么用也没有的仪式？因为生死、光阴、离合，都有人赋予它们意义，这玩意看不见摸不着，也不知有什么用，可是你我和一堆化学成分的区别，就在于这一点‘意义’。”
― Priest, 默读 [Mo Du] The Light in the Night

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“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing generated by this in writing. Where this ideal has come from I have no idea, and as I now see it before me, in black and white, it almost seems perverse.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1

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“John," she said, "does it make every one—unhappy when they study and learn lots of things?" He paused and smiled. "I am afraid it does," he said.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

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“It was not always like this, of course. On occasion it's been worse.”
― John Gardner, Grendel

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