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Post-Urban Songs
Post-Urban Songs is an outburst of sophisticated underground poetry, erratic and psychedelic. Unusual characters live in a visionary world, almost a parallel reality, where the emotions, urges, impulses, conflicts, and desperate search for happiness and intellectual freedom are almost the …Read More »Bullets, Blades, and High Heels by Phil Gerraud
Bullets, Blades, and High Heels propels the reader into a world of obscure emotions and perilous liaisons, where women are as unflinching as they are razor-sharp, men as unreliable as they are weak-kneed, and where dramatic twists skulk just around …Read More »
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79. The Charm of Imperfection.–I see here a poet, who, like so many men, exercises a higher charm by his imperfections than by all that is rounded off and takes perfect shape under his hands,–indeed, he derives his advantage and reputation far more from his actual limitations than from his abundant powers.
–Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science.