drainage, sewer mains and climactic scene where the MC reaches down into a river of bacteria sludge to arrive at the knowledge he needs to set everything right.
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Politics and Poetry, Draft
Someone I respect recently posted that a survey of poetry blogs revealed they were dead. No exciting critical thought. All hussle. Well, the universe sent me a cop-out in the form of an off-hand Samuel Delany comment (his best comments always are) when in his… Read More
some thoughts on poetry from someone in 1965 imagining what poetry would be on a post-apocalyptic planet at the end of war whose enemy was imaginary but whose casualties were real
I’ve been falling asleep to Delaney for about six months. Hoping it will irrigate my dreams. And also looking for poetics in unexpected places. Like out of the mouths of characters in a science fiction novel. These are some of my favorite poems, I think.… Read More
JOE HALL 