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Thomas J. Kitson
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Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · Dec 31
I'm happy this little volume came out this year. (Still working to find a publisher for all of _PhiloSophia_.) But I'm also glad I got to meet Sezgin Boynik in October, and I hope you'll consider purchasing any of the editions published by Rab-Rab Press.
www.rabrab.net/titles/biebao5
bie bao zaum series volume 5 — Rab-Rab Press
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thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
As men allure Doues by the beauty of the house; and reclaime Haukes by the fairenesse of the lute; so loue ioyned with vertue is able to recall the most stragling Aeneas to make sailes againe to Carthage.

#PalladisTamia #FrancisMeres
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Had it not been for the harvest something would have crept out about them among the cottagers.

#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
"Why, if he pretends to love her——!"

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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jacobinmag.bsky.social
New York’s incoming socialist mayor faces real fiscal constraints — but also real opportunities.

With a strong tax base, modest reforms, and a clear political mandate, Zohran Mamdani has the tools to govern.
Mayor Mamdani’s Budget Can Add Up
New York’s incoming socialist mayor faces real fiscal constraints — but also real opportunities. With a strong tax base, modest reforms, and a clear political mandate, Zohran Mamdani has the tools to govern.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
A party at Frederica Potter's in A.S. Byatt's _Babel Tower_. Thinking @robertsheppard.bsky.social must know this mention of the British Poetry Revival?
It is a good party. The voices mix, mingle and oppose. "Did you get to the poetry festival at the Albert Hall? "No, but some friends did. They said it was wild." "The audience holed and hooted. And bayed. It was pandemonium." "It was Nüremberg at times. I was there." "Jeff Nuttall and John Latham were painted blue. They were dressed as books, which they destroyed. Everyone danced." "They were all high, they were all spaced out. Adrian Mitchell read a poem about Vietnam." "It was full of enthusiasm and incredibly tedious."
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Now, in the kitchen on Friday evening there was a curious talk of Bevis and Mark.

#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
"But how to his?"

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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robmclennan.bsky.social
S*BSTACK ALERT: the green notebook,
, discovering the uncorrected galley of Ron Padgett's Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard (2004) on my bookshelf,
robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-green-...
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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stevenforth.bsky.social
1st lines

The gourd has bitter leaves;
The ford is deep to wade.
If the ford is deep to wade there are stepping stones;
If it is shallow you can tuck up your skirts.

From the Book of Songs 詩經 Arthur Waley translation about 600 BCE

#1stlines #poetry #China #translation
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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patternmind.bsky.social
Design books

Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton

ellenlupton.com/Thinking-wit...

#Boosky #design #books #designbooks #type
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Charlie learned something of this--he played in and out the place, and waved his cap thrice as a warning.

#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Her companion wondered.

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
So it was agreed that the dogcart should be ready early on Saturday afternoon.

#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
It isn't, at any rate, its 'coming out,'" she added; "it's that Mrs. Condrip would put the fact before her to his injury."

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Frances was discreetly delighted: Jack would not come down to see her just now, and with Bevis's mother she could go up and see him with propriety.

#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
"I must face the music.

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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kimdorman.bsky.social
Shinkichi Takahashi
(tr. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto)
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
At last, on the Friday, as Bevis did not write again, his mother proposed that they should drive up to Jack's, and see how the boys were on the morrow.

#BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
She made up for failures of gravity by failures of mirth; if she hadn't, that is, been at times as earnest as might have been liked, so she was certain not to be at other times as easy as she would like herself.

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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phillipcrymble.bsky.social
Joe Brainard
I remember being surprised at how yellow and how red autumn really is.
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them.

That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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danigaravelli.bsky.social
“The circle sits beautifully within a vertical landscape. Tower blocks, the cathedral spire..the obelisks of the Victorian cemetery, even the wind turbines on surrounding hills, all seem to mirror the stones." A lovely read on Sighthill's nod to prehistory from Peter Ross' book Upon a White Horse.
November 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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archhistdarling.bsky.social
Looking forward to speaking about the multiple modernities of BBC Broadcasting House next Feb.
Poster for a lecture series at Manchester school of architecture.
October 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Maybe an extra dollop of relevance this morning?
rcobooth.bsky.social Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 7d
it's clear reading this @rtraister.bsky.social piece how little the Democratic Party thinks it erred in running Joe Biden at his age

Also this memorable quote: "Many can’t imagine doing anything in which they won’t be heavily staffed and relevant all the time.”

nymag.com/intelligence...
It’s My Party and I’ll Leave When I Want To
Talking to the gerontocracy.
nymag.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM