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DESTRUCTION OF MAN by Abraham Smith (Paperback, 2018)

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DESTRUCTION OF MAN Abraham Smith Third Man Records Book & Flexi Vinyl Rare White Vinyl Flexi Must have for any a Third Man collector TMB024 Limited Edition New and unplayed (vinyl) New and unread, only opened to photograph (book) Purchased from new Item will be sent in a protective mailer, fully tracked and insured, signed for on delivery. I am still sending out items during these testing times as music can help us get through it! Why not have a look at my other signed listings, happy to offer bulk discount and/or combined postage From personal collection I have 100% positive feedback and welcome any questions

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Some say Abraham Smith's live readings are the best in America, except it's more accurate to say he howls rather than reads. So, better to call his readings hollerings, which often times might take place next to a tree. Listen to his howl via the flexi-disc included in DESTRUCTION OF MAN. You will hear the postmodern pastoral incantatory prophesy told through colloquialism and a minding of song. Music has a scent and the song logic as this book meanders along that broken and disjointed road. Regional writing is a curse, it seems; but this book is unabashedly regional, in the sense that Smith sought to translate the stories of his native county--and thereby the fading gleam or echo of a dying agrarian lifeway. This is a book-length poem about small scale family farming in the midst of the get-big-or-get-out mantra and foghorn. More broadly, this is a book-length poem about culture history and masculinity and our rupturing and sometimes obliterating elisions with machines. The conclusions are clarion clear: rurality has its hectic musics and all we have is love. Gertrude Stein said the seed of DESTRUCTION OF MAN: After all anybody is as their land and air is.