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Friday, August 21, 2009

The Carver Haiku


Is only
Fifteen fucking syllables

If you have never read Raymond Carver, your understanding of 20h century fiction remains unfinished.

It was a brief moment when literacy benevolently conjoined with brevity.
For the last time.
Before a brute, bumper-sticker darkness.
Ate America.

3 comments:

  1. Carver is
    what we talk about
    when we talk about literature

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  2. Sheesh,

    Dg.

    I already thought you were the best blogger ever.

    And then you tout Ray.

    OMG

    S

    I know Tess.

    A lovely poet.

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  3. Can't believe it's been twenty years. That thought is not as wrist-slicingly depressing as his short stories, but it's depressing enough.

    cl

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