reading revival is devoted to promoting australian poetry books and related discussion through reading one book - firstly, duty by geraldine mckenzie. i will choose a new book roughly every 3 months
more about influence ... mckenzie reminds me of truffaut (ive been watching the last metro) in her dramatic intensity and unpulled punches. but i dont want to suggest mckenzie is just a tissue - not even a strong tissue - of influences. words may not be orginal - may suggest the fold, where theyve been before.. - but what we bring to writing those words - the force is its own thing: mckenzie is herself; duty is itself.
posted by michaelf @ 7:37 AM
this blog is not about me, but about interesting books. but as i dont have a personal blog heres the brief info on my own books: 1) ode ode, salt 2003; 2) (new): BREAK ME OUCH, 3 deep, 2006 (graphic poetry). to purchase go to my publisher's websites or (or for any other reason) email me - readingrevival at gmail dot com. a raiders guide coming soon from giramondo.
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language as an exercise yard ... what makes stein less estranging is her humour - but her serious project sets up ways of using language, of thinking about representation, that a wide stream of poetry & poetics owes something to - & her aphorisms are as good as wilde's tho they apply to writing more than to life.im starting to think of duty as something resembling a new gnostic template .. tho that sounds like im straying into idiosyncratic blurbdom..
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