Anne Boyer’s A Handbook of Disappointed Fate (Book acquired, 8 April 2019)

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A tremendous thank you to to BLCKDGRD for sending me a copy of Anne Boyer’s strange discursive book of essays-poems-critiques-I-do-not-know-whats A Handbook of Disappointed Fates. It showed up in the mail unexpectedly, and I figured it might be from him (he posted excerpts last week). I’m really digging the book so far, although I haven’t been reading it in a straight line. I did start at the beginning though, which starts like this:

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(Bartleby prefers not to arrive in this essay on “No,” but it is nevertheless rather rich in its refusals).

Thanks to my friend again.

Mu Pan’s Garden of Earthly Delights (detail) — Mu Pan

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Mu Pan’s Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), 2019 by Mu Pan (b. 1976)

Perseus and Andromeda — Gustave Moreau

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Perseus and Andromeda, 1869 by Gustave Moreau (1826 – 1898)