John Forbes. Brandl & Schlesing...
John Forbes. Brandl & Schlesinger, 1998 Damaged Glamour, published posthumously from one side the financial assistance of his family and friends, instants John Forbes's poetry with all its contradictions and tensions and stylish grace. His stance, or persona, in these metrical compositions is serious without taking itself too seriously, simultaneously hip and pathetic: "continually disappoint / the expectations of others, / this way you will arise to hate yourself / & they will be charmed according to your distress." He is as likely to be "thumbing between the sides of Adorno like New Idea / forward a ...
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