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Zach Barocas, Diasporist Diarist

I’m Zach Barocas. I’m a drummer (I play Ludwig Drums), sometime poet (though not lately — see below for links), a publisher, a somewhat cranky cinephile, an amateur photographer, and a stationery shop owner in Brooklyn, New York City.

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The Cultural Society (2001-present)

Among Other Things (2005)

Looking Up (2010)

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A tumblr blog of photographs spanning several years, taken mostly and eventually only in the morning, and eventually mostly from the same position of the same tree. I abandoned the project in 2018.

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Tag: currently reading

Alan Felsenthal

A hull made to touch
the arctic shoulder of the vacant
sea.

Alan Felsenthal, “Lowly”

Format QuotePosted on May 11, 2017July 11, 2017Categories books, poetryTags books, brooklyn, currently reading, NYC, united states

Currently Reading: Citizen: An American Lyric

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Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric, 2014.

Posted on November 21, 2014July 5, 2016Categories books, culture, poetryTags Claudia Rankine, currently reading, united states

Do Not Sell at Any Price

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Amanda Petrusich, Do Not Sell at Any Price, 2014.

Posted on November 14, 2014July 5, 2016Categories books, culture, musicTags amanda petrusich, currently reading, united states

Made to Break

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D. Foy, Made to Break, 2014.

Posted on November 7, 2014July 5, 2016Categories booksTags currently reading, d. foy, united states

On Immunity

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Eula Biss, On Immunity: an Inoculation, 2014.

Posted on October 10, 2014July 5, 2016Categories books, cultureTags currently reading, eula biss, graywolf press, united states

From the Mouth of the Whale

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Sjón, From the Mouth of the Whale, 2008, translated 2011.

Posted on September 26, 2014July 5, 2016Categories booksTags books, currently reading, iceland

Living with a Wild God

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Barbara Eherenreich, Living with a Wild God, 2014.

“[I]f you’re not prepared to die when you’re almost sixty, then I would say you’ve been falling down on your philosophical responsibilities as a grown-up human being.”

Format GalleryPosted on September 5, 2014July 5, 2016Categories books, cultureTags barbara ehrenreich, currently reading, living with a wild god, united states

Carl Theordor Dreyer and Ordet

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Jan Wahl, Carl Theordor Dreyer and Ordet: My Summer with the Danish Filmmaker, 2012.

Format GalleryPosted on August 29, 2014July 5, 2016Categories art, books, filmTags carl theodor dreyer, currently reading, denmark, film, jan wahl, ordet, united states

The Chronology of Water

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Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water, 2011.

Format GalleryPosted on August 22, 2014July 5, 2016Categories booksTags chronology of water, currently reading, lidia yuknavitch, united states

Bluets

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In love with a color.

Format GalleryPosted on August 20, 2014July 5, 2016Categories booksTags bluets, books, currently reading, maggie nelson, wave books

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