Thanks for Your Book
2011; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 4; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/thr.2011.0087
ISSN1939-9774
Autores ResumoThanks for Your Book Mark Halliday (bio) Thanks for your new book, the cover is nice,quite striking really, and the title is kind of catchyand I will read it when I get a chance—well, I mean I'll read in it—the days of "reading every page" seem so ancient now but anyway yeah thanks for the book, and congratulationsof course, but I assume you have some perspectiveon what isn't happening? I mean you do realizehow the world changed around 1989, right?Up until 1989 there was still at least the dreamof "contribution to the great discussion"and the Individual Talent revising the entire Traditionand all that sweet marshmallow belief but then in 1989 approximately that whole dream fracturedin a thousand directions like an Empire State Building(oh funny quaint name) made of icebeing whacked on a hot city day whacked over and overby the innumerable sledgehammers of LICSE(Late Imperial-Capitalist Self-Expression) each sledge wieldedby a bright-eyed enfranchised citizen-dreamer hallucinatingthat he or she was bolting a new steel block into the soaring edificewhich instead was getting riddled with innumerable busy cracks WHACK WHACK every day since 1989 the shards of melting icecascade across the avenues glittery and shrinkingin the blaze of cacophonous plurality WHACKand the sledging dreamers stagger puzzled and quiveryamid the deepening slushgushing unreadable rivulets that find a thousand paths to the great sewer called How We Felt which I mention just to make sure you have a clear perspectiveand in that context, hey, thanks so much for your book. [End Page 573] Mark Halliday Mark Halliday teaches at Ohio University. His fifth book of poems, Keep This Forever, was published in 2008 by Tupelo Press. Copyright © 2011 Mark Halliday
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