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The Great Recession: The Argotist Online

The e-book The Great Recession, by American poet Adam Fieled, was released by The Argotist Online in October 2019.

The e-book The Great Recession, by American poet Adam Fieled, was released by The Argotist Online in October 2019.

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Walls and Ears

A period like this, he writes on his blog,

can make one question one’s relationship

with language. There’s only one word for

“bankrupt.” “Insolvency,” he supposes,

works, but it’s not drastic enough. What is

drastic enough is this— popcorn dinners in

this squat in Northern Delaware, nobody

watching, “I can’t think therefore I am not,”

and a sinking sensation of how the Academy’s

ego shuts out all light. He was a professor,

he says, to no one in particular, with a teaching edge.

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