review in time out chicago
you are a little bit happier than i am is reviewed by jeb gleason-allured here
i think jeb is the editor or co-editor of the 2nd hand
he said, "Lin's harsh, insular world of sadness, hopelessness, and despondency."
he quoted, "i go to the strand, buy three of the most depressing books i can find / which i know i’ll never finish because they won’t be depressing enough," and said, "Apparently he had to go and write one sad enough to suit his own dour tastes," which i think is true
if i reviewed my own book i think i would say most of the things jeb said
i think jeb is the editor or co-editor of the 2nd hand
he said, "Lin's harsh, insular world of sadness, hopelessness, and despondency."
he quoted, "i go to the strand, buy three of the most depressing books i can find / which i know i’ll never finish because they won’t be depressing enough," and said, "Apparently he had to go and write one sad enough to suit his own dour tastes," which i think is true
if i reviewed my own book i think i would say most of the things jeb said
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i don't think i'd have bothered calling it slim. maybe i'd have said it's eight inches tall.
my poetry collection is a small, nice, quiet person
are you a small, nice, quiet person? or do you occasionally want to kick someone in the head? is it better to call something slim, or skinny? i think of skinny as a white trash word. like, "she so skinny." but then, slim is associated with slim jim, which is a food, kind of. or it once was. not that it was once thought of as food and then not, but that it once was a food. i think.
my mother used to buy slim jim's sometimes and find them to our dachshund. she also used to trim my fingernails. this was a long time ago.
my next poetry collection is called 'the book you are holding is actually a small, nice, quiet person'
'fuck shit'
My mother ran over my dachshund in the driveway when I was eight. It wasn't really a dachshund so much as a kind of terrier.
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