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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

extremely engaging contemporary poetry project-object ... pretty next-level honestly cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/06...

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

venetian bottleglass window +++ concomitant shadow

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

near west side plow-pile ... snow & dust & sand & ice & soot & leaves & wood & salt & stray scrap

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

"La liberazione dell'ossesso" ("The Healing of The Possessed Man") by Luigi Borro, plaster, 1850 www.gallerieaccademia.it/en/liberatio...

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

not a tangential but an essential text—you know you're special when disparate poems from your supposedly fallow period amounts to such an accidentally substantial collection.. you could do way worse for Rilke in English than just reading all of Snow's translations

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

for all of Ferrante's exposure i still believe this is quite an "underrated" "craft" book.. plenty of insight into the "writing process" but more urgently: there's an overarching critique of the median mediasphere.. oddly sustaining mix of the thorny & the formal

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

oaktrunk hollowed out by fire ... then used as a beehive casing in what-is-now-france 3,000++ years ago

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

worth learning italian just to read this lengthy story in the original, really.. intricate nexuses of the pathetic & the neurotic.. the voidfully vague ambitions of a kind of crypto-retiree

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

{ ...illustrated map of Sicily as dishcloth thingie... }

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

had no idea Basquiat did paintings on literal fences.. painted on the fences he brought inside from behind the Venice Beach studio he rented.. this one is Untitled, 1984 .. Acrylic & oilstick

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

what type of arborealness even IS this?! whatever it is.. 'tis a blooming-ass mid-gloom fit of arborealness

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

1st United States residence of Bertolt Brecht 1954 Argyle Avenue Los Angeles

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

real ones know already .. but visually; sonically; intellectually.. this book of poems goes like crazy.. totally unique! click & see

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Qur’anic leaf from the 9/10th CE discovered in Calatafimi, Sicily last January ... hidden in the binding of a marriage register from the 1st half of the 16th century

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

is this any of you?! simply was not certain.. would be handy for me to know :)

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

~100 page novel.. philosophically & sensorially copious.. no sectionbreaks yet unfailingly fluid—& full of acrobatic (patented Wolf) perspectival shifts.. disarming insights RE: class; alienation; the Enlightenment's failures etc.. all-pervading doom tinged w/slippery tenderness

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"The Masquerade" (1918) by Mario Cavaglieri ... extremely underrated painter www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/...

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

i did not know nary a Dutch word but.. now i'll never forget the word "ondoorgrondelijk"—this review of the CYBERNETICS, OR GHOSTS anthology says my story therein is "ondoorgrondelijk" (unfathomable).. kinda getting a kick out of the extremity of peoples' reactions to this story

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

im on discord too ... im on all these damn apps #realtalk

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Piazzas, streets, gardens, fountains, theaters!

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Muriel Rukeyser's poem "Effort at Speech Between Two People".. essential ... indispensable.. classic! www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56285/...

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

re-reading this bad boy.. these MFs are intense! (also kind of fascinating how much work Bachmann is clearly doing @ some points to foster Celan's then-only-nascent rep.. )

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

lol (this essay is so good generally ... wow ... so sweeping ... on the limitations of the "rationality" undergirding most LLMs) components.one/posts/buildi...

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

just googled an elder short fiction of mine which appeared in 3AM called "how yummy is purgatory" to see if i was repeating myself in this new story im writing ... love this reassurance from the AI filter lol.. the uniquely unhinged faux-self-assured dopiness of this stuff

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

from the novel NO PLACE ON EARTH (1979) by Christa Wolf ... tr. by Jan van Heurck.. (Wolf is just such an incredible writer)

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

wonderfully ruthless paragraph RE: the depravity of Justin Trudeau's foreign policy newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

1 of my friends cast doubt on whether i could in fact properly stuff the pillowcases i procured in the Medina in Marrakech but i just sent the MFer this photo.. & i now say the same thing to you e-doubters out there: i showed your ass again, didn't i

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