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Eileen Myles on Pathetic Literature

Apology

CHAPTER

The Phenomenon of Poetics

I think the pathetic is often in his work and just in certain characters, not in his voice. And then there's this other older definition or sort of like linkage to patheticness, which is the pathetic fallacy. So that, that list was Kevin, Kelly and Dody Bell and the Samuel Delaney Valerie Solanas,. Robert Wallser, who else, John Wieners, Bob Gluck - but literally, so those people, it was kind of a given there in the book. But I think literally when I started to pick it, Simone Bay was the first one.

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