Wednesday, November 24, 2010

our monstrous worship of facts, Art will become sterile, and beauty will pass away from the land



Sam Sax » Literary Death Match
11-19-2010





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Pawel Jaszczuk











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with a capsule comment: my lungs
want to breathe you in while my body
brays at the open sky in a calm
and reassuring way. An android full
of nut butters and quinine. Do you feel

from "Gas Stations & Weirdos"
by
Todd Colby



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Leah Fusco








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I’m going to diction. I’m going to shifting
tone: serious consideration given to the Fanciful

bursting off. I’m going to poem this poem into poem
& call it Flamingo. I’m going to mimetic theory.


from "Flamingo Poem"
by
Nate Pritts



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Liam Stevens











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I have a bucket in my hand. What about you? What’s in
your hand? A flower. Flowering plants have dominated
the plant scene since dinosaurs and it is a lesson
in perseverance. Yet paleontologists keep changing
their minds just like everyone else. Can you make
yourself completely independent of daylight?

from "We Are Hearing the Loudest Animal Be Its Loudest"
by
Emily Pettit



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Stephen J. Penry











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Bobby Doherty








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Frederico Pellachin












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Sabrina Bte Abdullah











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Willow Smith vs. Sesame Street - "Whip My Hair"
(Mec Jagger Rmx)





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Michael Barry








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Before the sun had come around the top of where we could see a fire in the south over the planets, there, already, they had him by the hair. Had the Dealer in the middle of where he had been spotted on by the birds, where he had lain filthy in Samantha’s dinner.

from "ON THE MOUNTAIN"
by
Brian Kubarycz



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Allison Sommers












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Chad Moore











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LIL B - Based Codeine Pt.1
(Chopped & Screwed by DJ Tryll Dyll )

{genre: Syrup-Soaked, Slur, Drone Hop}

[thanks, Mike}



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Christine Gray











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Hillary Boles














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Ilse Versluijs















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Maria Friberg















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Lita Cabellut
























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Full trees yield a battlefield of apples the birds take to. Into the trees Bebe Faye climbs with her string to tie to the ends of the birds. To snare them, she says, to set a trap.

from "Crimped, Gunwales Under"
by
Heather Palmer



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Olivia Megalis








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Linnea Strid





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Nosaj Thing "Us (Jon Hopkins Remix)"
Created by: Anthony Ciannamea & Mark Wisniowski





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Ondine de Kroon











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The lady on stage is screaming. Her legs are splayed, her makeup is smeared and the crowd leans forward, eager to see what's coming next. The menacing mute in white-face looms over her, a nurse's hat perched on his head. His newly found voice channels through the screaming woman.

from "The Secret Lives of Puppets"
by
Lindsay Gibb



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Adam Hunter Caldwell















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Wiz Khalifa - Kush & Orange Juice (2010)

{genre: Mixtape, Weed-Fed Flow}



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Brian M. Viveros














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LV feat Okmalumkoolkat - "Boomslang" (Hyperdub 2010)
Directed/ Edited by Mello Moropa





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Laura Lancaster















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Stefan Strumbel








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DJ Screw - 3 'N The Mornin' Parts I & II (1995)

{genre: Mixtape, Chopped & Screwed, Syrup-Soaked}