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Robert Wood

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Robert Wood is interested in time, the classics, and revolution. He is the author of the books History & the Poet, and, Suburbanism. See more at: www.robertdwood.net

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On the Epic of Gesar of Ling

By Robert Wood on September 26, 2018

I have a Tibetan friend who trained as a monk in his home country before escaping over the Himalayas as a political prisoner. He walked for days over... Read more →
LiteraturePoetry

On Zizek

By Robert Wood on September 19, 2018

In the transit lounge of an unnameable airport, I see the fake leaves blowing in the air-conditioned breeze. I am happy to be traveling but right... Read more →
Poetry

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On Yu Hsuan-Chi

By Robert Wood on September 12, 2018

In an old colonial building, wracked with moss and mould, there is an installation in between two rooms that are galleries for the duration of the... Read more →
Literature

On Malcolm X

By Robert Wood on September 5, 2018

It is axiomatic, if clichéd, that to be an adolescent is to be rebellious, is to ‘fight the powers that be’. We felt ourselves, deep in the... Read more →
LiteraturePoetry

On the Popul Vuh

By Robert Wood on August 29, 2018

On my uncle’s desk in his apartment in Berlin there is a rusty rail nail from a sleeper collected from the desert near Cook on the Nullarbor in... Read more →
LiteraturePoetry

On Sappho

By Robert Wood on August 22, 2018

I first encountered the Greeks like everyone else. This was not as a text that was written, a book that I sat down and read without any idea of what... Read more →
LiteraturePoetry

On Rumi

By Robert Wood on August 16, 2018

It was dark. It always was dark, in the Americas, in Oceania, in Africa, in Asia, even in Europe with its darkest of dark ages. How might we know... Read more →
LiteraturePoetry

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On Raymond Queneau

By Robert Wood on August 8, 2018

A poet needs to have some sort of constraint – many constrain their voice aiming for consistency; others constrain their themes, grouping... Read more →
LiteraturePoetry

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On Poe

By Robert Wood on August 1, 2018

I was a historian before I was a poet. Or to put it better, I was trained as a historian even as I was a waiter, a teaching assistant, a union... Read more →
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On the Classics

By Robert Wood on July 25, 2018

The first book I ever wrote I put in a drawer and forgot about it. I did the same with the second, third and fourth. I self-published the fifth... Read more →
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