Clever, careful and raw: this translation significantly deepened my relationship with the text. Suggestion: Read Hart's translation notes (included as an appendix in the ebook and I think paperback edition) before digging into the main body of the book.
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Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
"Generations after leaving earth, a starship draws near to the planet that may serve as a new home world for …
allison rated The Pine-Woods Notebook: 5 stars
allison rated Track changes : a literary history of word processing: 5 stars
Track changes : a literary history of word processing by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that littered the …
allison rated Other Minds: 5 stars
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
"Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses …
Educated by Tara Westover, Salvador Company Gimeno, Anna Torcal Garcia
Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t …
allison rated American Prophets: 5 stars
allison rated The End of Policing: 5 stars
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists and politicians, the conversation …
allison rated Travesty Generator: 5 stars
allison reviewed The New Testament by David Bentley Hart
"David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament etsi doctrina non daretur, …
Review of 'The New Testament' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
allison rated Queering the Tarot: 4 stars
Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow
Tarot is best used as a tool for self-discovery, healing, growth, empowerment, and liberation. Tarot archetypes provide the reader with …
allison reviewed 80 flowers by Louis Zukofsky
Review of '80 flowers' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I was already familiar with the reprint in Anew, but on this date I read one of the actual Stinehour Press copies at the Morgan Library in Manhattan. It's an extraordinarily beautiful book (both as an object, and its contents).
allison rated Dept. of Speculation: 4 stars
allison rated The poetics of indeterminacy: 5 stars
