He doesn't like Crumb's women -- Crumb's sense of Yahweh as a character he's ok with. And when he was a kid, Thomas Mann... that's funny, why's there blood on my head? Oh! I must have fallen asleep standing up.
John Gallaher is the author of the books of poetry, Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls, The Little Book of Guesses, and Map of the Folded World, as well as the free online chapbook, Guidebook from Blue Hour Press, and, with with the poet G.C. Waldrep Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, BOA, 2011. His next book will be the book-length essay-poem In a Landscape, coming out in 2015 from BOA.
Other than that, he's co-editor of The Laurel Review and GreenTower Press.
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I see in the NYRB that he doesn't like R. Crumb!
But what I want to know is does his expression change when talking about something he dislikes?
He doesn't like Crumb's women -- Crumb's sense of Yahweh as a character he's ok with. And when he was a kid, Thomas Mann... that's funny, why's there blood on my head? Oh! I must have fallen asleep standing up.
Oddly, he looks like one of Crumb's women a bit, no?
Maybe that explains the expression.
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