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Omar Shapli interview |
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The General Is Asked His Opinion and other sad songs 2002-2005 |
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| "Something in here grabbed me and made me think the thoughts I don't think
(or don't want to think) when left to my own devices, or thoughts that I can't articulate. Let's call these occasions,
if you will, moments of clarity, a little like the epiphanies burrowing about in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
little moments of bright in the shadows of all the madness. These occasions touch on the practice of everyday life,
moments when I can see clearly what sits in front of me rather than the shadows of the marching hordes of idiots that
rule and inhabit this ailing rock." Eric Repphun "Omar Shapli, irreverent and highly original as a poet, is recognized at long last. What a lift this is for us, who question fools in the saddle and hunger for a sense of some truth, beauty and a laugh or two along the way." Studs Terkel "There is welcome wit in Omar Shapli's poems, but every once in a while a lightning bolt of reality which sobers you for a moment and makes you think, on top of your enjoyment." Howard Zinn "Omar Shapli is an original voice: a prophet and a witness looking at our time with a mixture of irony and horror. And yet there are compensations-"ferns fragile pagodas" and the satisfaction of "a glass of kvass." He is quite classical actually, at home in his old haunt of the dramatic monologue." Don Burness |