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Rob Hendricks
Rob Hendricks is on page 24 of 64 of Defense of the Idol
"Now that the road has died / and that our automobile reflex is licking its ghost / with its stunned tongue, / as if we were spinning vertigenously in the spiral of our own selves, / each one of us feels lonely, indescribably lonely, / oh infinite friends!"
Apr 26, 2023 07:28PM Add a comment
Defense of the Idol

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Rob Hendricks is 36% done with A Sand Book
"We were in the souvenir / Kiosk behind the throne room / The arrow in my compass began / To quiver, solemn colonels slicing key / Limes into keys into a tureen of wastetoid / Pukes lightly slapped with a platelety / Lasagna by the white hand of a handsome / Waiter in a battalion of balls / On a billiard table loaded w eternally / Tween thoughts reconstellating / The diamond sense of genocide's very / Worst ideas."
Apr 26, 2023 12:10PM Add a comment
A Sand Book

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Rob Hendricks is on page 44 of 188 of Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
"so much spinal cord / looped & curved into spider darkness / hacked out of a calcium tomb, / where water screams back into you."
Apr 26, 2023 10:59AM Add a comment
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

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Rob Hendricks is on page 167 of 272 of The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems, 1990-2010
"My whole body feels like it's vibrating, / like I'm a harp of time."
Apr 26, 2023 10:46AM Add a comment
The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems, 1990-2010

Rob Hendricks
Rob Hendricks is on page 145 of 188 of Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
"I pulled the crumbled photograph / from his fingers. / There's no other way / to say this: I fell in love."
Apr 26, 2023 10:10AM Add a comment
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

Rob Hendricks
Rob Hendricks is on page 5 of 88 of The Sacraments of Desire: Poems
"a world without color that knows the sea's dark blue"
Apr 25, 2023 07:09PM Add a comment
The Sacraments of Desire: Poems

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Rob Hendricks is 11% done with The White Stones
"The explosion / is for all of us and I dedicate the results / to the fish of the sea and the purity of / language: The truth is sadder but who / would ask me to hope only for that?"
Apr 25, 2023 06:57PM Add a comment
The White Stones

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Rob Hendricks is on page 72 of 96 of Beyond the Chainlink
"As a listener, I won't retain / by absorbing, but by being absorbed."
Apr 25, 2023 05:24PM Add a comment
Beyond the Chainlink

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Rob Hendricks is on page 100 of 234 of A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
"To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not -- this is the beginning of writing."
Apr 11, 2023 09:46PM Add a comment
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

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Rob Hendricks is on page 389 of 680 of The Path of Individual Liberation (The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, #1)
"Death requires you to completely leave everything that you love, including your one and only beloved ballpoint pen... You cannot meet your friends anymore. You lose everything--every single item that you possess and everything you like, including the clothes you bought and your little tube of toothpaste, and the soap you like to use to wash your hands or face."
Mar 25, 2023 04:56PM Add a comment
The Path of Individual Liberation (The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, #1)

Rob Hendricks
Rob Hendricks is on page 76 of 234 of A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
The gift is not necessarily excrement, but it has, nonetheless, a vocation as waste: the gift I receive is more than I know what to do with, it does not fit my space, it encumbers, it is too much: "What am I going to do with your present!"
Feb 27, 2023 04:49PM Add a comment
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Rob Hendricks
Rob Hendricks is on page 49 of 96 of Beyond the Chainlink
"Rattlesnakes, I heard you say. / One dozen, large."
Jan 05, 2023 08:17PM Add a comment
Beyond the Chainlink

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Rob Hendricks is on page 13 of 96 of Beyond the Chainlink
"How meanings settle upon the eye. Moths in butter. / Contradiction is devotional."
Jan 05, 2023 07:38PM Add a comment
Beyond the Chainlink

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Rob Hendricks is on page 77 of 234 of A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
"...what I give by singing is at once my body (by my voice) and the silence into which you cast that body. (Love is mute, Novalis says; only poetry makes it speak.) SONG MEANS NOTHING: it is in this that you will understand at last what it is that I give you; as useless as the wisp of yarn, the pebble held out to his mother by the child."
Jan 05, 2023 12:54PM Add a comment
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Rob Hendricks
Rob Hendricks is on page 74 of 234 of A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
"...ultimately it is possible to talk about love only according to a strict allocutive determination; whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic, there is always, in the discourse upon love, a person whom one addresses, though this person may have shifted to the condition of a phantom or a creature still to come. No one wants to speak of love unless it is FOR someone."
Jan 05, 2023 12:26PM Add a comment
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

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Rob Hendricks is on page 175 of 272 of The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems, 1990-2010
I pulled my car over by the farm stand on / Northwest Street. "How's the corn this year?" / I asked the farmer. "It's the best ever," he / said. "You say that every year," I said. "No / I don't," he said. "Yes you do," I said. "No / I don't," he said. "Yes, you do," I said. "I / don't," he said. "Well you do," I said, "but / let's not make a federal case out of it," I said. / "Fair enough," he said.
Jan 05, 2023 01:12AM Add a comment
The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems, 1990-2010

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Rob Hendricks is on page 30 of 1045 of Collected Poems 1956–1987
"Surely the trees are hinged to no definite purpose or surface."
Jan 05, 2023 12:34AM Add a comment
Collected Poems 1956–1987

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Rob Hendricks is on page 23 of 590 of Poems
" I'm interested instead in / discretion: what I love and also the spread / of indifferent qualities."
Jan 04, 2023 11:25PM Add a comment
Poems

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Rob Hendricks is on page 53 of 196 of Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy (Pocket Communism)
"In Lacan's seminar, [Hyppolite] spoke with virtuosity and particular commitment about Freud's great text on negation. That was because there was within him a subterranean negativity, a primordial 'no' about which we knew little but which was constantly at work."
Jan 04, 2023 10:55PM Add a comment
Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy (Pocket Communism)

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Rob Hendricks is on page 39 of 196 of Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy (Pocket Communism)
"We have here a particularly extreme example of what Hegel calls 'extraneation,' or the radical effect of mediation through alterity." (Referring to Jean Hyppolite's French translation of The Phenomenology of Spirit, as surpassing Hegel's original in its generative glory.)
Jan 04, 2023 10:36PM Add a comment
Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy (Pocket Communism)

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Rob Hendricks is on page 31 of 240 of The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series)
"ginkgo, bristly locust, maiden pink, garden star-of-Bethlehem, wild pansy, / birdeye speedwell, eastern redbud, Japanese cherry, apricot, peach, / American holly, beefsteak plant, maypop, common blue wood aster, / calico aster, eastern white pine, southern sugar maple, scarlet morning glory." -- Tiana Clark
Jan 04, 2023 10:19PM Add a comment
The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series)

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Rob Hendricks is on page 205 of 680 of The Path of Individual Liberation (The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, #1)
"Boredom is important because boredom is anti-credential, anti-entertainment. And as we develop greater psychological sophistication, we begin to appreciate such boredom. It becomes cool and refreshing, like a mountain river... Cool boredom is like what mountains experience. With cool boredom, thought processes become less entertaining. They become transparent. Cool boredom is hopelessness at its most absolute."
Jan 04, 2023 06:42PM Add a comment
The Path of Individual Liberation (The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, #1)

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