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challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
A pre-beat work of art that straddles the line between prose and poetry. Dark surrealism meets continued themes and a narrative that does in fact exists, bubbling beneath the service. Words as art, and angry, subversive, desperate art.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Minor: Sexual violence and Cursing
lv2's review
3.0
I had to stop at "clean slip." Alright, moving on and setting aside the faint whiffs of Beatnik misogyny (not claiming the man is, he's not, but it's par for the Beat-course), Patchen is clearly an awesome visionary lyricist who shook things up. His raw anti-war fury is righteous and also beautiful.
Basically, I need to put on my surreal hepjazz dirty angel hat (get high) and re-read this like a poem like I read his other great poems. It's sort of impenetrable and exhausting, but that's ok too.
Basically, I need to put on my surreal hepjazz dirty angel hat (get high) and re-read this like a poem like I read his other great poems. It's sort of impenetrable and exhausting, but that's ok too.
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