Nov 19, 2017
look how many teeth / you have—the better to swallow the sky
Emily O’Neill, from “where St. Francis tamed the wolves,” Curious Specimens
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look how many teeth / you have—the better to swallow the sky
Emily O’Neill, from “where St. Francis tamed the wolves,” Curious Specimens
Curious Specimens by Various, eds. Wren Hanks & Beth Couture Sundress Publications — Free (PDF) Poetry (Anthology)
Featuring the work of Eric Baus, Mathias Svalina, Emily O'Neill, Sonya Vatomsky, Moss Angel, and MANDEM, among many others, Curious Specimens is an anthology of the strange and wondrous things that make us human.
Because it makes Marxist theory, aims and tactics intelligible to any literate non-Marxist mind, To the Finland Station is an invaluable book. It is an advantage that, like Milton with the character of Satan, Author Wilson is half in love with the human side of the curious specimens he describes.
The TIME review of Wilson's To the Finland Station as quoted on the wiki. That's right, October 1940 TIME magazine, the communists are Lucifer.
'Half in love' is correct, though. Wilson evinces a weird mixture of nostalgia for Jacobinism and a somewhat patrician faith in the American liberal project. At the same time, he is a damned good writer. It makes the whole book a surprisingly engrossing if sometimes cavalier read. This review by CLR James is fun.