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Animals

Herman Melville Drinks Your Milkshake

by Micah Towery May 13, 2010 Academia

I was fortunate enough to have a American Literature professor who blew off the typical survey class BS and just gave us some of the best literature of the 19th century: Hawthorne, Dickinson, Melville, among others… In that class, I read Moby-Dick for the first time. I believe I read most of it over the course…

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Ain’t No Sunshine in My Shell

by Samantha Zighelboim March 28, 2010 Animals

A Green Crab’s Shell Not, exactly, green: closer to bronze preserved in kind brine, something retrieved from a Greco-Roman wreck, patinated and oddly muscular. We cannot know what his fantastic legs were like– though evidence suggests eight complexly folded scuttling works of armament, crowned by the foreclaws’ gesture of menace and power. A gull’s gobbled…

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NOTES ON NOISE

by Sarah V. Schweig March 24, 2010 Animals

A. People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never share… -Paul Simon Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds…. -Vladimir Nabokov To my wife Anne, without whose silence this book never would have been written. -Philip K. Dick, [...]

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“Hour” by Christian Hawkey with drawings

by Simone Kearney March 23, 2010 Art
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Sometimes when I happy get

by Stuart Krimko March 1, 2010 Animals

Sometimes when I happy get I turn on my television set and disappear into its glow like a pixelated crow I flap my wings so pure and black and feel like there’s no going back inside the tube I’ll stay forever consider thrown the simulacrum lever if my mother comes home and turns it off [...]

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