The Best Of (What's Left Of) Heaven, Mairead Byrne (2019)
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- Author: Mairead Byrne
- Year: 2019
- Type: #primary2
Summary (brief)
-You can just say things. They don't have to be important, or even meaningful. So much of interior life is just pointless repetitive thoughts, saying things out loud or in your brain because they feel good to say. Found poems and war poems (a topic which includes divorce). A preference for the everyday that may be inspired by James Joyce. Byrne’s poems, true to the blogosphere, are like intrusive thoughts: sometimes a word repeated in succession ten times; sometimes, a song about oatmeal.
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quote:: “If it looks like a poem, it is a poem. / If it associates with poems, it is a poem. / If it has even one drop of poetry, it is a poem. / If it joins with another genre to form a new genre that genre will be poetry / & all its products will be poems.”
page:: 118
themes:: truthandmemory
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