POETRY MONTH: text redacted from 2017 SAFE MODE by Sam Riviere blog post
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Tag: alcoholic
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
middling swashbuckling adventure
John Barleycorn by Jack London
1914 memoir about alcoholism that oozes big denial
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A Wild and Precious Life
The Ladybird Book of The Hangover by J.A. Hazeley & J.P. Morris
Humour books about the bottle don’t sit right
Attrib. and other stories by Eley Williams
drowning in sobriety like I used to drown in booze; even sublime prose can’t hoist me happy
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
If Gregor Hens can give up smoking, I can give up booze.
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition by Malcolm Lowry
Lunar Caustic is a lie.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
an accurate depiction of the lust and boredom that threatens to overwhelm all of us who aren’t pious, delusional, fuckheads
Zone by Mathias Enard
pleasure is a lightening bolt that leaves no trace
Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry was a tragic figure. A hugely talented writer, yet an alcoholic of such self-destructive proportions that he diedContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 