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228 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2018






‘poetry bears witness to pain, it doesn’t cure it. Words have always accompanied me. They’re crystal and root, journey and blade. They’re everything but medicine. Poetry doesn’t cure. If anything, it opens, unstitches, uncovers.’
‘what loving design can this death possibly be attributed to? What lofty path, invisible to us humans, justifies this life taken from the world? There’s no possible reason for that innocent’s death,not one that I can comprehend.’
‘I’d ask for a total ban—from the year 2000 onwards—on the concept of “sensitivity,” at least when used to fantasize about the human spirit. A single concept for thousands upon thousands of inaccuracies, dangerous do-goodisms, and delayed or never completed realizations’