Tag Archives: Anarchism

America, your melting pot is a black hole

Channeling Anarchy after Whitman Specimen 4: Wishing America never happened I. Anarchy is a stone untapped “First what do we understand under ‘Anarchism’? Anarchism practical, metaphysical, theoretical, mystical, abstractical, individual, social?” Vladimir Nabakov, Pnin “If you meet the Buddha, kill … Continue reading

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“the United States that coughs all night and won’t let us sleep”

Channeling Anarchy after Whitman Poets to Come “Arouse! for you must justify me.” “One’s-Self I sing, a simple separate person,/ yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.” One’s Self I Sing “A new race copiously appears, with resolute tread, … Continue reading

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“an image of the dead on the fingernail of a newborn child”

Channeling Anarchy after Whitman: “Of all nations the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most needs poets…Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.” “He is the arbiter of the diverse and … Continue reading

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“Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs”

Channeling Anarchy Through Walt Whitman Specimen 5: Re-materialism or, Pirates know things more sublimely. “I moisten the roots of all that has grown” Song of Myself, 22 Watching me, glorious, bite into a soppy peach, the lysol-shined floor under my … Continue reading

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“Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all”

Channeling Anarchy through Whitman Specimen 4: The Burden of Witness “The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,”   Song of Myself, 8 “What is absent makes the world what it is.” History of the Always Pain, Jennifer Militello … Continue reading

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On Levi’s® Marketing Tactics

The Levi’s® brand has drifted, like so many global capitalist ventures, far from its homely inception (as a collaboration between a tailor and a denim supplier selling jeans to Western farmers), while attempting to “sell” contemporary consumers the same image. … Continue reading

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“To find me now will cost you everything.”

Channeling Anarchy through Whitman Specimen 1: The Ghost of Whitman In his 1980s poem, “Whitman“, Larry Levis sings the displaced Whitman. By the 80’s The State had taken Whitman and made him “required reading in high schools” only for inhibited … Continue reading

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