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Repetition as compulsion: that you could make yourself believe a thing exists by tagging it, by making it again. Only, semantic satiation draws the word away from being, like the thin, drained smell of burnt rubber, rent into an air duct.

I Heart Your Fate
by Anthony McCann
Wave Books, 2011
96 pages / $16  Buy from Amazon, Wave Books

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A review of I <3 Your Fate, I [heart] Your Fate, or I [love] Your Fate, or, truly, the way your cognition’s filter makes you read it, maybe only when you look at the book, but maybe when you think of it, too, picturing the playful, blackbled type on the cover, I [hate] yr Fate, because the pull of the rhyme is stronger than the sound of the tongue-in-cheek, cardiod stain.

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August 12th, 2011 / 12:00 pm

Live Giants 12: Noelle Kocott, Matthew Rohrer, Anthony McCann

You missed the live reading but you can still get in on the nice deal Wave is offering on their books, $10 each.

Noelle Kocot’s The Bigger World

Matthew Rohrer’s Destroyer and Preserver

Anthony McCann’s I Heart Your Fate

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April 28th, 2011 / 8:52 pm

Andrew cam: Rohrer/McCann book release

Anthony McCann; new book: “I <3 Your Fate”

Matthew Rohrer; new book: “Destroyer and Preserver”

(It got cut off because I was unknowingly holding the flip cam by its power button — forgive me.  It’s still pretty tight though.)

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February 21st, 2011 / 2:57 am