I was not speaking of marginality one wishes to lose, to give up, or surrender
as part of moving into the center
but rather as a site
one stays in, clings to even,
because it nourishes one’s capacity to resist.
It offers the possibilities of radical perspectives
from which to see and create,
to imagine alternatives,
new worlds.
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[…] Nettelbeck has shared the stage, the page and probably quite a few drinks with the likes of William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Micheline, Wanda Coleman, Charles Bukowski, John Giorno and John M. Bennett. His own writing is some of the most brutal, honest, powerful and ugly (yet sublimely beautiful) poetry I have ever read. Long marginalised, he lives and writes from the margins, reminding me of this beautiful quote from Bell Hooks. […]
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