Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated

The poems in Some Common Weakness Illustrated are like a series of unexpected meditations on overlooked parts of life. Carson Cistulli's poems shed light on.
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Imperfect Remembrance Marta Figlerowicz. Masters and Servants Gaiutra Bahadur. A Postcard from Ursula John Crowley. Sometimes, the thing in question is both, as, for instance, "from The Contemplative's Joke Book": Where does a prostitute eat her meals? In a William T. Vollman novel, is a good answer. My hometown can beat up your hometown. My god is crunker than your god. I didn't necessarily embrace this poverty. It was more like, I waved to it from across the street. As even these brief examples show, Cistulli's basic approach is to cut up the nonsense chatter of everyday speech, creating an oddly skewed, though engaging, perspective on the mediaverse.

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Sometimes, the effects are pretty interesting; other times, they devolve pretty quickly into the merely irritating: Return to Book Page. Some Common Weaknesses Ilustrated 4. Some Common Weakness Illustrated, Carson Cistulli's first book, is a series of unexpected meditations on overlooked parts of life. Combining formalism with poetic experiment, his poems shed light on his peculiar condition of feeling that he is trapped inside of a poem while being addicted to sports-basketball and baseball in particular. In these poems language seems to rep Some Common Weakness Illustrated, Carson Cistulli's first book, is a series of unexpected meditations on overlooked parts of life.

In these poems language seems to replace meaning, while feeding our spectacular, collective appetite for the truth.

Carson Cistulli's book of poems is like the rabbit that pulls the magician into his hat. It is like an enormous handkerchief spewing out colorful severed hands. It is like the woman who uses her naked body to cut saws in half. Paperback , 88 pages.


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To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Some Common Weaknesses Ilustrated , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Some Common Weaknesses Ilustrated. Lists with This Book. Oct 17, Sean rated it it was amazing. I learned from this book not to be afraid of my heterosexuality, and to let it out to run free over hill, dale, etc.

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Sep 23, Christopher Deweese rated it it was amazing. This book is large enough to fit over the head of your greatest enemy. Jun 23, Matt Ely rated it it was amazing Shelves: This book is difficult to rate. The rating depends largely on why you're picking it up. For me, as for many who find it these days, it is to hear more from the voice of Cistulli himself, now one of the most unique voices in baseball analysis and host of what is easily the strangest baseball podcast, Fangraphs Audio.

For us, the happy band of Carsonian loyalists, this slim volumes rates at an easy five stars.