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ben’s poetics shelf

The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan Queer by William S. Burroughs Eecchhooeess by N.H. Pritchard Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery Not Me by Eileen Myles Shit, Piss, Blood, Pus & Brains by John Giorno A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue by Christine Kwon Ark by Ronald Johnson Libre by Skye Jackson I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken The Blue Mimes by Sara Daniele Rivera
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Prelude to Bruise
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Joseph Campbell
“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
― Joseph Campbell, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
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