Time Lived Without Its Flow: Denise Riley, Max Porter, Emily Berry
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The Allergy of Grief
I hear lots and lots of intellect but that is usually a critique aimed at women more than men isn't it? It's one of the ways which anti-intellectualism goes hand in hand when misogyny it's that to perform grief in certain ways is expected of you. The concept of moving on is supposed to be the sort of vocabulary of the sepia that you're describing. I don't even know, I'm thinking about Anne Carson's work as an allergist. We know a very distinguished writer who pays no tribute to the tasteful misty version of grief at all. And oh I know Rebecca Gosses's work about the death of her. There's Marie Howe what
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