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A History of Flamboyance by Justin Phillip Reed

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5.0

“in essence, innocence moves the other way—runs out: foam at the mouths of rivers, roam where the falls end, feathers where the angel fell, white where semen lands. red: fell ikaros, a man in angel drag”

there’s a matter of fact surrealism to reed’s poems and a casual urgency. erotics, yes. also insanity. a mother wound. gorgeous, brilliant, painful shit.
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