Book Review: “The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times”

“Traditionalism” is a thing among the far-right kids these days. As I’ve written in a few places, seemingly all of them confuse “Tradition,” the mystical bundle of essential truths the original early-twentieth-century Traditionalists believed in, and “tradition,” i.e. whatever bits of the past a zoomer chud thinks is cool. And...

After Reading “State of Relax” by Eileen Myles

"Cows kissing goats"— Bible-immersed —I see lions bedding with lambs.  Calliope of poem,lustful, subtle —nation un-uniting itselfand sighing,postcoital. Nebraska as"the loosest kook of all andanimals walk naked in your past."  All the naked animals,all the naked flowers,all the naked stones and water bodies.My nakedness. My mother constantly enlists me,oldest of many acolytes,to rearrange her furniture,empty of life now 25... Continue Reading →

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