dig

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She laughed and leaned back in her chair. Crossed her legs at the ankles. Her trim dark jeans were cuffed primly back over brown wool socks. She had on half boots, all scuffed worn leather. Her jean jacket had a shearling fringe, mottled white and green.

Colonial Conditions, Brandon Taylor (The Yale Review)

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The Aesthetics of Resistance. Peter Weiss. “The three volumes of the novel were originally published in 1975, 1978 and 1981. English translations of the three volumes have been published by Duke University Press, in 2005, 2020 and 2025.”

The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I
Translator: Joachim Neugroschl
Foreward: A Monument to Radical Instants / Fredric Jameson

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He lies if they ask him
how he does it.

To leap on top
or to the side.

To dodge the ceaseless
lottery.

Imperceptible,
in the back patio
of his mind,
a plant opens,
a succulent
of accomplishment.

I., Luis Muñoz. Translated from the Spanish by Idra Novey & Garth Greenwell

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From no nowhere not near the sea
on blue field flax
the cemetery's absolutely solitary
you and you and a third

of a pound of bread
for supper in the refectory
where I would die of hunger
if you--if soon--if on this unday--one

undoing would be undone

Unday, Fanny Howe