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Average rating: 4.45 · 224 ratings · 14 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Ordinary Sun 4.37 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2011	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
	The Absence of Knowing 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Is Holy 4.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Cannibal: Issue Two by Matthew Henriksen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Katy Henriksen 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2007	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
	Cannibal: Issue 5 by Katy Henriksen (Editor), Matthew Henriksen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010	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
	Cannibal: Issue Four by Katy Henriksen (Editor), Matthew Henriksen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	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
	Cannibal: Issue Three by Katy Henriksen (Editor), Matthew Henriksen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	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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Giovanni’s Room

by James Baldwin

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

by Paulo Freire

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To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (2 Vol. Set)

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Matthew’s Quotes

“We name us and then we are lost, tamed
I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness”
― Alice Notley, Mysteries of Small Houses

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“If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
― Gilles Deleuze

tags: dream, fucked-up, funny, humor, other, philosophy, relationships

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“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex

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“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books

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“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”
― Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954

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message 4: by Matthew

Nov 21, 2011 08:07PM

Ordinary Sun is now a finalist for Best Poetry Goodreads Choice Awards; thus, you have one more chance to vote or not vote.

Here:
http://www.goodreads.com/award/choice...

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message 3: by Matthew

Nov 16, 2011 06:36AM

Ordinary Sun is now a semi-finalist for Best Poetry Goodreads Choice Awards, which means for some reason everyone is supposed to vote again.

http://www.goodreads.com/award/choice...

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message 2: by Matthew

Nov 02, 2011 07:20AM

Ordinary Sun is a nomination for Best Poetry Goodreads Choice Awards.

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message 1: by Matthew

Oct 02, 2011 09:25PM

Hunter--

Thanks. I appreciate that. Look like you are in Berlin, my favorite city.

Matt

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