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Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times
The Dark Mountain Project began with a manifesto published in 2009 by two English writers--Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth--who felt that literature was not responding honestly to the crises of our time.
In a world in which the climate is being altered by human activities; in which global ecosystems are being destroyed by the advance of industrial civilisation; and in which the dominant economic and cultural assumptions of the West are visibly crumbling, Dark Mountain asked: where are the writers and the artists? Why are the mainstream cultural forms of our society still behaving as if this were the twentieth century--or even the nineteenth?
Dark Mountain's call for writers, thinkers and artists willing to face the depth of the mess we are in has made it a gathering point for a growing international network. Rooted in place, time and nature, their work finds a home in the pages of the Dark Mountain books, with two new volumes published every year.
Walking on Lava brings together the best of the first ten volumes, along with the original manifesto. This collection of essays, fiction, poetry, interviews and artwork introduces The Dark Mountain Project's groundbreaking work to a wider audience in search of 'the hope beyond hope, the paths which lead to the unknown world ahead of us.'
In a world in which the climate is being altered by human activities; in which global ecosystems are being destroyed by the advance of industrial civilisation; and in which the dominant economic and cultural assumptions of the West are visibly crumbling, Dark Mountain asked: where are the writers and the artists? Why are the mainstream cultural forms of our society still behaving as if this were the twentieth century--or even the nineteenth?
Dark Mountain's call for writers, thinkers and artists willing to face the depth of the mess we are in has made it a gathering point for a growing international network. Rooted in place, time and nature, their work finds a home in the pages of the Dark Mountain books, with two new volumes published every year.
Walking on Lava brings together the best of the first ten volumes, along with the original manifesto. This collection of essays, fiction, poetry, interviews and artwork introduces The Dark Mountain Project's groundbreaking work to a wider audience in search of 'the hope beyond hope, the paths which lead to the unknown world ahead of us.'
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Published July 20, 2017
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August 6, 2017
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This book offers nice views and has beautiful writing.
But sadly its a bit too "dream-y" for me personally. I love the ideas that are talked about in this book about how we could help our world - but it never offers actual ideas how we can get there in a realistic way.
Which sadly is what i think we don't need more books with talk about what we should do - we need more books that offer actual options that are realistic and possible in our real world!
its still a beautiful book to read and if you are interested in it? do pick it up, as i said, the writing alone make it worth a read!
But sadly it was not what i personally wanted from this book so it was not really what i wanted from it.
This book offers nice views and has beautiful writing.
But sadly its a bit too "dream-y" for me personally. I love the ideas that are talked about in this book about how we could help our world - but it never offers actual ideas how we can get there in a realistic way.
Which sadly is what i think we don't need more books with talk about what we should do - we need more books that offer actual options that are realistic and possible in our real world!
its still a beautiful book to read and if you are interested in it? do pick it up, as i said, the writing alone make it worth a read!
But sadly it was not what i personally wanted from this book so it was not really what i wanted from it.
July 5, 2018
Genrewise, this book is more zen than zen. It is also literally what happened to existentialism.
If you know Paul Kingsnorth’s vision, from the chilling pieces on him in the Guardian or his book on post-Environmentalism, you’ll have a sense of the unifying force here. It’s dark, heavy, and extremely compelling if you can handle it.
The book is the art and the community that rise back up out of that gravitas. They are asking for a movement both in consciousness and in creativity. Their first stab at it is beautiful the way almost nothing is beautiful now, because beauty like this comes where the stakes are high.
The thing that’s not really addressed here, that at some point is not going to have any science to make it negligible anymore, is human overpopulation. The desolation of the planet is not only from that, but is in not what brings the end game upon us? Maybe we are waiting for human-level extinction events before we know how to really admit this into our minds. I don’t know. I don’t know how to think about this topic either. I just know there are a lot of other extinction events going on and one way to try to reckon with that, just the smallest bit, might be art.
There’s a lot of beautiful writing here, and some that’s a little too much wanting to be beautiful, to the point of tedium. Chapter 8 (the last one) is extremely good, with pieces from Dougald Hine, Florence Caplow and Maria Stadtmuller. No surprise this collective would make the very end especially bountiful, being who they are.
That brings me to the very section of the last chapter, by Vinay Gupta. Vinay Gupta is one of the best thinkers now thinking. Follow him @leashless, do his App Cutting Machinery all the way to the end, listen to him on the Future Thinkers podcast. Also he invented the hexayurt (which strangely makes several appearances in Walkaway, the book I read before this).
Throughout the book I was thinking that the point of this movement is witnessing. Not fixing. Just the accidental, marginal benefits that arise from being aware of pain and suffering without trying to change it. It was fitting, then, that Gupta addressed this straight on in he final pages. Quoting from 266-7:
"I am a Kapalika, a bearer of the skull. My life was destroyed when I was a child by the nuclear explosions of my parents’ madness, and in rebuilding it I opened the doors at both ends of the mind to see clearly my own beginning and my end. Stray yogis are put to work, so I became one whose profession and avocation was to stare at death so hard that death itself flinched, a little, and came back later.
"So came a variety of projects based around this work of seeing the beginnings and ends of things… So what lesson can we offer you, the Kapalika, teh old brethren of teh end? The social function of the Kapalika is only to know.
"This does not sound so much, only to know, but to live in the awareness of the truth accomplishes dual functions. First, it slowly compels one to act differently…. This individual function, to change what we live, to be in accordance with the truth that things end, is the fundamental satyagraha.
"The second function, however, is the one where I want to throw you a bone of hope. The second function of teh Kapalika is to strip away teh lies about death, the mythology and the avoidance, and cot spread hop by a simple fact: the avoidance of teh truth of death is worse than death itself. Death cannot be avoided, but its avoidance can be avoided."
If you know Paul Kingsnorth’s vision, from the chilling pieces on him in the Guardian or his book on post-Environmentalism, you’ll have a sense of the unifying force here. It’s dark, heavy, and extremely compelling if you can handle it.
The book is the art and the community that rise back up out of that gravitas. They are asking for a movement both in consciousness and in creativity. Their first stab at it is beautiful the way almost nothing is beautiful now, because beauty like this comes where the stakes are high.
The thing that’s not really addressed here, that at some point is not going to have any science to make it negligible anymore, is human overpopulation. The desolation of the planet is not only from that, but is in not what brings the end game upon us? Maybe we are waiting for human-level extinction events before we know how to really admit this into our minds. I don’t know. I don’t know how to think about this topic either. I just know there are a lot of other extinction events going on and one way to try to reckon with that, just the smallest bit, might be art.
There’s a lot of beautiful writing here, and some that’s a little too much wanting to be beautiful, to the point of tedium. Chapter 8 (the last one) is extremely good, with pieces from Dougald Hine, Florence Caplow and Maria Stadtmuller. No surprise this collective would make the very end especially bountiful, being who they are.
That brings me to the very section of the last chapter, by Vinay Gupta. Vinay Gupta is one of the best thinkers now thinking. Follow him @leashless, do his App Cutting Machinery all the way to the end, listen to him on the Future Thinkers podcast. Also he invented the hexayurt (which strangely makes several appearances in Walkaway, the book I read before this).
Throughout the book I was thinking that the point of this movement is witnessing. Not fixing. Just the accidental, marginal benefits that arise from being aware of pain and suffering without trying to change it. It was fitting, then, that Gupta addressed this straight on in he final pages. Quoting from 266-7:
"I am a Kapalika, a bearer of the skull. My life was destroyed when I was a child by the nuclear explosions of my parents’ madness, and in rebuilding it I opened the doors at both ends of the mind to see clearly my own beginning and my end. Stray yogis are put to work, so I became one whose profession and avocation was to stare at death so hard that death itself flinched, a little, and came back later.
"So came a variety of projects based around this work of seeing the beginnings and ends of things… So what lesson can we offer you, the Kapalika, teh old brethren of teh end? The social function of the Kapalika is only to know.
"This does not sound so much, only to know, but to live in the awareness of the truth accomplishes dual functions. First, it slowly compels one to act differently…. This individual function, to change what we live, to be in accordance with the truth that things end, is the fundamental satyagraha.
"The second function, however, is the one where I want to throw you a bone of hope. The second function of teh Kapalika is to strip away teh lies about death, the mythology and the avoidance, and cot spread hop by a simple fact: the avoidance of teh truth of death is worse than death itself. Death cannot be avoided, but its avoidance can be avoided."
July 28, 2017
Honestly, I may not have been the ideal target for this book. On the one hand, I admired the writing as I was reading, but I also wasn't really buying the message. There was a lot of talking about the dangers of civilization, and how it is destroying the world. Instead, we should go back to living in harmony with the world, like our ancestors. But no one mentions the elephant in the room: to make that workable, you would probably have to get rid of as much as 3/4 of the world population. There's just too many people to live local and on subsistence farming. And even if we did reduce the population, humans tend to breed at a growth rate, especially if you are trying to grow enough food for the local area (someone has to work the fields, after all). From all the history I've read, overpopulation isn't the fault of civilization, it that civilization came about due to overpopulation to deal with the friction that resulted.
Still, the writing was (for the most part) lovely, and did make me think in places, even when I disagreed. 'Shikataganai' in particular, near the end of the book, affected me deeply,
Still, the writing was (for the most part) lovely, and did make me think in places, even when I disagreed. 'Shikataganai' in particular, near the end of the book, affected me deeply,
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December 21, 2017Heavy and fantastic. Really some chewy bits in there. I'm looking forward to reading more from The Dark Mountain Project.
July 14, 2019
Although it's uneven, "Walking on Lava" is a remarkable introduction to a fairly remarkable group's work: the Dark Mountain Project, which is behind the anthology, has been publishing biannual magazines for ten years now that collect essays, artwork, and fiction to do with climate change. The group's principles, however (elucidated in an 8-point manifesto introduced at the beginning of the anthology), separate them from other activist and climate-oriented groups. The subtitle of "Walking on Lava" is "Selected Works for Uncivilised Times," and the group views "uncivilisation" as an active process, a task we must all undertake, rather than a description of our current state of being or mind.
The most refreshing - and paradigm-shifting - thing about their viewpoint is the relentless attempt to de-center the human from the narrative of climate change. Sometimes this is very effective, and sometimes it comes off as maudlin or as (for lack of a better word) hippie-dippie. Serious, thought-provoking essays and poetic, stirring stories are, in this collection, jammed right up against interviews with survivalist bros and New Age-y "spiritual energy" activists, and some of the essays take odd stances (the last one is a particularly odd choice, ending on a perverse note of hedonism and futility that clashes with the ethos of most of the book). But overall, I found the collection enlightening and thought-provoking. It has, indeed, shifted the way I think about climate change, its ramifications, and the role human beings play in all of it.
Particular highlights, for me, were founder Dougald Hines's "Remember the Future?" (truly masterful and thought-provoking); Nancy Campbell's "No More Words for Snow;" Thomas Keyes's "October Black Isle Pheasant Stew;" Sylvia V. Linsteadt's "Osiris;" Nick Hunt's "Loss Soup;" Persephone Pearl's "On the Centenary of the Death of Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon;" and Gregory Norminton's "Visitors Book."
The most refreshing - and paradigm-shifting - thing about their viewpoint is the relentless attempt to de-center the human from the narrative of climate change. Sometimes this is very effective, and sometimes it comes off as maudlin or as (for lack of a better word) hippie-dippie. Serious, thought-provoking essays and poetic, stirring stories are, in this collection, jammed right up against interviews with survivalist bros and New Age-y "spiritual energy" activists, and some of the essays take odd stances (the last one is a particularly odd choice, ending on a perverse note of hedonism and futility that clashes with the ethos of most of the book). But overall, I found the collection enlightening and thought-provoking. It has, indeed, shifted the way I think about climate change, its ramifications, and the role human beings play in all of it.
Particular highlights, for me, were founder Dougald Hines's "Remember the Future?" (truly masterful and thought-provoking); Nancy Campbell's "No More Words for Snow;" Thomas Keyes's "October Black Isle Pheasant Stew;" Sylvia V. Linsteadt's "Osiris;" Nick Hunt's "Loss Soup;" Persephone Pearl's "On the Centenary of the Death of Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon;" and Gregory Norminton's "Visitors Book."
June 19, 2019
I came to the Dark Mountain project with few concrete anticipations and full of openness. What I found in this collection is a set of well-written and deeply thoughtful takes on the existential prospects of our evolving understanding of environmental issues and climate change.
From the initial manifesto, authored by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine in 2009, to the more recent pieces and to the artworks and poetry scattered throughout the collection, Walking on Lava makes a strong case for a lived understanding of what it means to experience the change of climate, societies, and culture in a radical time. As the editors write,
While I didn't like all the collected pieces equally, and found some fluffy and others alarmist, I appreciated the range and scope of the book. It is an excellent guide to the Dark Mountain project, and I encourage you to take a look at the manifesto, at least, especially if you've made it this far. Even better, you can do so right away!
Neither for the sleeping nor the faint of heart.
From the initial manifesto, authored by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine in 2009, to the more recent pieces and to the artworks and poetry scattered throughout the collection, Walking on Lava makes a strong case for a lived understanding of what it means to experience the change of climate, societies, and culture in a radical time. As the editors write,
Writers and artists, thinkers and doers, needed to own up to the crises enfolding us, instead of pretending they weren't happening, or that they were just glitches which could be ironed out by technology or politics. An abyss was opening up before us, and the very basis of our civilization was in question. It was, declared the manifesto, 'time to look down.'And from that spark, a high intensity flame.
While I didn't like all the collected pieces equally, and found some fluffy and others alarmist, I appreciated the range and scope of the book. It is an excellent guide to the Dark Mountain project, and I encourage you to take a look at the manifesto, at least, especially if you've made it this far. Even better, you can do so right away!
Neither for the sleeping nor the faint of heart.
January 15, 2021
This selection of work from the Dark Mountain Project was both horrifying and hopeful. It presents a new lens through which to read, write, and create-the lens of uncivilization. Uncivilization is re-imagining of our relationship to nature; that is that there is no relationship, because there is no separation. We are not separate from nature.
Its authors' exploration of this affected my way of thinking. I appreciated their realist, unapologetic examination of the dangers we are facing as a civilization, yet also their hopeful creative drive to lean into this new way of thinking. It all seemed very relevant amid the current public discourse around climate emergency.
The main issue with this collection is that it is completely Eurocentric and male driven. Too many white dudes. There are female authors in the collection, but all of the essays that mirror the tone of the manifesto are men. Whenever a different worldview pops up it is framed by an anthropological/colonial lense. They act like they are inventing a new way of looking at art and civilization without acknowledging that there may already be better ways of looking at things. If they had included a bullet in their manifesto that read something like, "We will consider indigenous ways of knowing", it wouldn't feel like there was a glaring hole in their philosophy.
Its authors' exploration of this affected my way of thinking. I appreciated their realist, unapologetic examination of the dangers we are facing as a civilization, yet also their hopeful creative drive to lean into this new way of thinking. It all seemed very relevant amid the current public discourse around climate emergency.
The main issue with this collection is that it is completely Eurocentric and male driven. Too many white dudes. There are female authors in the collection, but all of the essays that mirror the tone of the manifesto are men. Whenever a different worldview pops up it is framed by an anthropological/colonial lense. They act like they are inventing a new way of looking at art and civilization without acknowledging that there may already be better ways of looking at things. If they had included a bullet in their manifesto that read something like, "We will consider indigenous ways of knowing", it wouldn't feel like there was a glaring hole in their philosophy.
August 26, 2017
Where this world is going on and how can we develop a different attitude about our environment complicated by climate change and a lot of unusual, scaring weather's answer from a crazy climate?
How can we give peace again to Earth and men?
In my land old people said that when Earth is stressed and there are quakes or floods or uncertainties caused by extreme climate conditions, people are stressed and peaceless as well. A good environment means for man peace because the environment is every man's land.
This book published last Aug 4th Walking on Lava Selected Works for Uncivilized Times edited by Charlotte Du Cann, Dougald Hine, Nick Hunt and Paul Kingsnorth the sum of the first ten books published by the cultural association Dark Mountain where we meet, in very erudite words, without hiding anything the risks for the future, the story of our humanity and a project for saving the Planet re-thinking our history with creativity.
The Dark Mountain Project was founded in 2009 wanted by a group of ecologists and creative people who thought that what they were hearing about nature and ecology was not sufficient for changing the world in better, but that, at the same time the world needed and needs extra-attention because what we are seeing in a daily base is scaring. I am writing when two days ago we experienced in Italy the quake of Ischia where two people lost their lives and a lot of houses and a church collapsed with great simplicity as if they would have been sand. Italy: a year ago we lived the quake of Amatrice with wagons of dead people. Who knows: maybe if the climate change wouldn't have been so strongly influential we wouldn't have lived all these disasters, or in less measure.
What these group of thinkers of the Dark Mountain Project wants to do is to try to reunite all the creative mind for telling to the world, their world as it was and proposing some solutions.
These tales, poems are amazing. I prefer the tales of the past, where nature was tranquil, where agriculture was clean and rich for every man.
In all these tales there are big reflections about the state of the world, and where this Old World is going on and what we can do for changing the situation before it becomes too irreversible, if it's not arrived yet the point of no return. Returning to the past can be a great idea :-)
I thank NetGalley and Chelsea Green Publishing for the eBook.
How can we give peace again to Earth and men?
In my land old people said that when Earth is stressed and there are quakes or floods or uncertainties caused by extreme climate conditions, people are stressed and peaceless as well. A good environment means for man peace because the environment is every man's land.
This book published last Aug 4th Walking on Lava Selected Works for Uncivilized Times edited by Charlotte Du Cann, Dougald Hine, Nick Hunt and Paul Kingsnorth the sum of the first ten books published by the cultural association Dark Mountain where we meet, in very erudite words, without hiding anything the risks for the future, the story of our humanity and a project for saving the Planet re-thinking our history with creativity.
The Dark Mountain Project was founded in 2009 wanted by a group of ecologists and creative people who thought that what they were hearing about nature and ecology was not sufficient for changing the world in better, but that, at the same time the world needed and needs extra-attention because what we are seeing in a daily base is scaring. I am writing when two days ago we experienced in Italy the quake of Ischia where two people lost their lives and a lot of houses and a church collapsed with great simplicity as if they would have been sand. Italy: a year ago we lived the quake of Amatrice with wagons of dead people. Who knows: maybe if the climate change wouldn't have been so strongly influential we wouldn't have lived all these disasters, or in less measure.
What these group of thinkers of the Dark Mountain Project wants to do is to try to reunite all the creative mind for telling to the world, their world as it was and proposing some solutions.
These tales, poems are amazing. I prefer the tales of the past, where nature was tranquil, where agriculture was clean and rich for every man.
In all these tales there are big reflections about the state of the world, and where this Old World is going on and what we can do for changing the situation before it becomes too irreversible, if it's not arrived yet the point of no return. Returning to the past can be a great idea :-)
I thank NetGalley and Chelsea Green Publishing for the eBook.
April 6, 2021
Everything I'd read about the Dark Mountain Project so far intrigued me. It seemed like a truer discourse on climate and humanity's role on Earth than anything I'd come across before. I haven't had the sensation of discovering an entirely new perspective a very long time, and I wanted to explore it to the fullest. I was willing to take a large leap of faith and let my beliefs be challenged to see where it would lead me.
This, however, was a letdown. Most of the pieces were full-on esoteric babble. I'm not complaining about the lack of solutions presented - that is very openly not the declared point of the Project - but the contributions often lacked meaningful thought and agency - instead dissolving into laments, cynicism and gatekeeping where none was expected. Some ideas, like those about the Luddite movement, are missing huge chunks of counterarguments that would make the picture more complete (and worthy!); some are simply snapshots of the authors' world that are presented with a reproaching sneer and little else.
Yet two pieces stand out and embody the perspective I was looking to explore in a thoughtful way. Akshay Ahuja's analysis of the Mahabharata as a parable on human control over nature (Strange Children) was illuminating, and also the first time I've been able to properly tune myself to Indian mythology. Tim Fox's 5-page piece on human control and the sci-fi myth (Openings) was exactly the sort of philosophy that opens mental doors and perhaps alone makes the book worth buying and reading.
This, however, was a letdown. Most of the pieces were full-on esoteric babble. I'm not complaining about the lack of solutions presented - that is very openly not the declared point of the Project - but the contributions often lacked meaningful thought and agency - instead dissolving into laments, cynicism and gatekeeping where none was expected. Some ideas, like those about the Luddite movement, are missing huge chunks of counterarguments that would make the picture more complete (and worthy!); some are simply snapshots of the authors' world that are presented with a reproaching sneer and little else.
Yet two pieces stand out and embody the perspective I was looking to explore in a thoughtful way. Akshay Ahuja's analysis of the Mahabharata as a parable on human control over nature (Strange Children) was illuminating, and also the first time I've been able to properly tune myself to Indian mythology. Tim Fox's 5-page piece on human control and the sci-fi myth (Openings) was exactly the sort of philosophy that opens mental doors and perhaps alone makes the book worth buying and reading.
January 14, 2021
As with most of the output from The Dark Mountain Project, Walking on Lava is a mixed bag of the brilliant, the banal, and the bewildering. Given the ambitious goals of the Project, it's to be expected that there will be misses among the hits, but on the other hand some of the contributors seem to not even be familiar with the general concept.
The worthwhile exceptions include Nancy Campbell's "No More Words for Snow", probably the standout piece in this volume, which is worth quoting:
"When you store something away in a safe place, there's always the danger you won't find it again. Perhaps it is simpler to accept loss at the outset. The absence of printed language in the Arctic seemed to be as potent as the more tangible literature I had grown up with. I wondered whether a poet writing in English today could be active without publishing, and even whether there might not be a case for silence as a poetic stance in a culture so unremittingly oriented towards self-preservation and self-promotion?"
On the other hand, there's Vinay Gupta's execrable "Death and the Human Condition", which posits a fatalistic view that we might as well keep gathering as many toys as we can before the capitalist system collapses and the toy store is forced to close. Fuck that.
All-in-all, this volume is well worth the read, simply for the fact that some of the contributors are trying to rise above the noise and find a path that leads somewhere worth going. The Dark Mountain Project is critical simply because it is willing to actually look directly at our coming reality without flinching, and if some of the pieces in this volume seem to have caught the wrong boat, at least the contrasting viewpoints are a recognition that there's no definitive script to follow, and each one of us needs to stop waiting for other people to solve the problems.
The worthwhile exceptions include Nancy Campbell's "No More Words for Snow", probably the standout piece in this volume, which is worth quoting:
"When you store something away in a safe place, there's always the danger you won't find it again. Perhaps it is simpler to accept loss at the outset. The absence of printed language in the Arctic seemed to be as potent as the more tangible literature I had grown up with. I wondered whether a poet writing in English today could be active without publishing, and even whether there might not be a case for silence as a poetic stance in a culture so unremittingly oriented towards self-preservation and self-promotion?"
On the other hand, there's Vinay Gupta's execrable "Death and the Human Condition", which posits a fatalistic view that we might as well keep gathering as many toys as we can before the capitalist system collapses and the toy store is forced to close. Fuck that.
All-in-all, this volume is well worth the read, simply for the fact that some of the contributors are trying to rise above the noise and find a path that leads somewhere worth going. The Dark Mountain Project is critical simply because it is willing to actually look directly at our coming reality without flinching, and if some of the pieces in this volume seem to have caught the wrong boat, at least the contrasting viewpoints are a recognition that there's no definitive script to follow, and each one of us needs to stop waiting for other people to solve the problems.
September 4, 2017
A collection of essays and poems and photographs. I really liked some of these essays and really hated or didn't understand the point of some of the others. Some essays felt as if they were trying to hard to be artsy and got away from nature and the environmental focus I expected in this book. I always finish a book and slogged through the last 1/4 of this one, skipping two towards the end. The last two essays were some of my favorites, but a few gems throughout. Just wouldn't exactly recommend this to anyone I know...even my crunchy, granola friends. It could be just my stage of life in which a constant barrage of heavy, sometimes confusing writing isn't worth getting through. And it did cause me pause in some places thinking of broader and interesting ideas.
June 14, 2019
A good sample of the kind of work the Dark Mountain Project publishes. Overall, I was surprised by the consistent high quality of the writing and ideas over such a varying array of kinds of writing, from non-fiction essay, to more journalistic pieces, to poetry, and fiction, as well as a sprinkling in of art works (thought it was in this last category that I think showed the lowest quality and weakest efforts).
I'm considering submitting some work to the DMP, so this was a convenient way to get a sense of it all, but not a book I want to own, so I'm glad I got this at the library.
I'm considering submitting some work to the DMP, so this was a convenient way to get a sense of it all, but not a book I want to own, so I'm glad I got this at the library.
March 7, 2018
This book was well written and I really enjoyed it, for many of the stories. There were a few stories especially in the second half of the book I enjoyed the most. However reading it front to back did give a rounded look at what the project was trying to achieve so I'd recommend reading it this way.
March 20, 2018
Well, it's not bad, some of it is very good. I agree, but I don't see the point.
July 2, 2021
Difficult to rate an anthology. Some of this was like 6/5 stars, a lot of it did nothing for me. Will hopefully be reading more from this project in the future.
December 26, 2017
Such an important collective. Read everything they publish! I’m a subscriber to their periodical and have been touched and broadened by the depth and breadth of their work.
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