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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Diatribe from the Library

Diatribe from the Library

Brenner, Farrell Greenwald

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 099791498X
ISBN13: 9780997914986
Publisher: Headmistress Press
Published: Jan 4 2017
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Farrell Greenwald Brenner's playful, cutting Diatribe from the Library, books are toxins, grenades, they have bones. Books are typed on cigarette papers and smoked outside of the library. Farrell writes of the burning of books, reminds us that witch-burning is still in vogue, and hints at the smoldering fires of the Holocaust. All of this feels even more palpable as we enter an era with a president-elect who states that the burning of the U.S. flag should be punishable by the loss of citizenship. What is citizenship? What happens when your family crosses an ocean? What is displacement and diaspora-for Jews, Palestinians, African-Americans? Can the library, can the book, heal wounds-this/is mine/the word/the page/the book? Farrell's book itself is a kind of antidote: I wish for you the megaphone into which you can spit that fire/and become a dragon of your own.

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