Bombing The Thinker – poems – Darren C Demaree
Bombing The Thinker
poems, Darren C. Demaree
Backlash Press, 2018
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‘It must be terrible
to be all root
all the time,’ – {from} Not Crop, Not Husk
‘I’d take a weapon. I’d use it
in a war or near a war. I just
want to watch the little bugger
eat through a quiet person.’ – {from} A Damaged Thinker #78
Tender, overwhelmed, and necessary, Darren C. Demaree’s Bombing The Thinker is act, rumination, emission, and place. A work that, after its instruction, one may ask why it matters that our messengers be alive. In it, or from it, Demaree re-petals the flower of discourse surrounding the 1970 vandalism of Rodin’s The Thinker in Cleveland, Ohio, that left the sculpture with a wounded base. Keep reading- this book transcends the heaven of concept and the hell of novelty. Demaree is an archivist of urgency, an acolyte…
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