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Fast by Jorie Graham
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it was amazing
bookshelves: verse

Damned good poetry, difficult as hell, but rich and vital and urgent. I finished the last poem MOTHER'S HANDS DRAWING ME listening to Public Image Ltd. and it made the cruelest sense. A kind of rage and nihilism seemed to erupt from the this final work that suggested she has some inkling of the final darkness awaiting us all. She's seen in the waning light of the eyes of her closest kin the mad throes of a system cannibalizing on itself, a system that thinks eternity can be fooled. But of course, it can't. Jorie knows we all hang by a thread, this little planet on some invisible string zipping across millennia in its nanosecond of joy. Exhilarated with realization. Deep beautiful work. But scary as shit. Read this. Marvel.
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Reading Progress

April 18, 2019 – Started Reading
April 18, 2019 – Shelved
April 18, 2019 –
page 12
12.5% "Deeply sad, disturbing and relevatory. Graham sees from the seconds after the end of time, our time, the ravages of nature we undertook for... what? Knowing we will eradicate what is beautiful makes the present awareness of what is here even more beautiful. These poem are angelic but difficult to parse. They require an attention that takes time to cultivate."
April 19, 2019 –
page 26
27.08% "Breathtaking heartbreaking leavetaking soulwaking words, little shot-glass words that soothe, then burn on the way down."
April 21, 2019 –
page 33
34.38%
April 21, 2019 –
page 45
46.88%
April 21, 2019 –
page 45
46.88% "Incandescent. Filled with pain’s instruction, which is how we learn to cope with the almost unbearable burden of life’s joys. I can hardly mention how she watches her father die, it’s so intensely personal."
April 22, 2019 –
page 50
52.08%
April 25, 2019 –
page 53
55.21%
April 26, 2019 –
page 60
62.5%
April 29, 2019 –
page 65
67.71%
May 9, 2019 – Finished Reading
August 27, 2019 – Shelved as: verse

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