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Swift Winds
Ron Sakolsky's backpocket compendium of subversive texts, marvelous manifestos, mutinous rants, outrageous ideas, utopian dreams, impossible demands and incendiary broadsides strategically aimed at countering the pathos of miserabilism with the uncontrollable laughter of the insurgent imagination
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First published January 1, 2009
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May 12, 2011
Fun, small, compilation of insurrectionary and surrealist rants, analysis and poems. The art work is nice as well. Obviously some pieces are better than others, but when Sakolsky hits his mark well, it is enjoyable, uplifting and refreshing - three words that usually don't describe an anarchist publication.
June 26, 2013
Poetic prose explorations of anarchy and revolt and history.
This little zine is worth tracking down to read about the 2008 US financial crisis in light of the History of Shit: Since money is symbolically a form of excrement, poetic justice demands that stockbrokers and bankers suffocate in their own shit.
Learning about Harry Smith (of the Anthology of American Folk Music fame) and his Crowley connection was most interesting, as was the history of the cover art for that landmark set of recordings. Of course, Sakolsky is just cribbing other sources, but who has the time to read a big book like that?
The little essay on radio piracy was well-done. Sakolsky has written extensively about that subject elsewhere.
Then there's a dismissive book review on Anarchy and Art From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, which is understandable, as that book's subject could have been covered in twice as many pages. Still the review was fun to read as it mentioned Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, who was quite a character. But Sakolsky's beef with the author of that history seems to be moreso one of ideology than mere brevity.
The poem on Bakunin and Beethoven's Ninth left me cold but the final and opening poems in this chapbook are a rousing call-to-arms.
This little zine is worth tracking down to read about the 2008 US financial crisis in light of the History of Shit: Since money is symbolically a form of excrement, poetic justice demands that stockbrokers and bankers suffocate in their own shit.
Learning about Harry Smith (of the Anthology of American Folk Music fame) and his Crowley connection was most interesting, as was the history of the cover art for that landmark set of recordings. Of course, Sakolsky is just cribbing other sources, but who has the time to read a big book like that?
The little essay on radio piracy was well-done. Sakolsky has written extensively about that subject elsewhere.
Then there's a dismissive book review on Anarchy and Art From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, which is understandable, as that book's subject could have been covered in twice as many pages. Still the review was fun to read as it mentioned Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, who was quite a character. But Sakolsky's beef with the author of that history seems to be moreso one of ideology than mere brevity.
The poem on Bakunin and Beethoven's Ninth left me cold but the final and opening poems in this chapbook are a rousing call-to-arms.
September 13, 2009
A nice bit of inspiration for a grey Sunday. Tiny book packed with poetic inspiration, insurrectionary history and art. Seven thumbs up.
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