archives for Wednesday 23 May 2007

most inscrutable blurb ever

Wednesday 23 May 2007 | I like a cookie

This is a handbook with a ravenous audacity instructing and warning doubly how to halve a narcissus. Her extra-convial form hinges to receive what is tender: Ms. Doris’ is the authentically cosmetic craft. Nothing else is new thus.
(Lisa Robertson, blurbing a selection of poems by Stacy Doris, Paramour, from Krupskaya Books)

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coals to newcastle

Wednesday 23 May 2007 | I like a cookie

Fresh rose-red raspberries veiled in cream at two in the morning, hand-plucked by unhappy Oaxacans in a sunny land not far south of here—what could be more decadent? Sleeping; sleeping could be more decadent. But sleeping is not to be. Listen, fair reader, and ye shall hear the tragickal tale of a wee accidental overdose, […]

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