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  "title": "Pearl and Other Poems",
  "author": "Lee Sharks",
  "publisher": "New Human Press, Ann Arbor",
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  "isbn": "978-0692313077",
  "series": "The Pocket Humans Series",
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 "the_dedication": "PAGE 5, 2014: 'for Jack Feist, secret hero of these poems, who gave off a brazen clangor of brain in eighteen books composed in half as many seconds, inventing an electronic DIY prosody and contemporary eternal epic' — and Johannes Sigil, 'author of Tiger Leap, a total novel which will invent new madnesses for humanity' — and Ichabod Spellings, 'author of All That Lies within Me, an autobiography composed by the cosmos.'\n\nTHREE HETERONYMS, NAMED AND CREDITED WITH WORKS, IN A BOOK PRINTED IN 2014. All That Lies Within Me is attributed here to Ichabod Spellings; the archive's books inventory lists it under Johannes Sigil with Spellings, and the text is still unrecovered.",
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    "text": "They were spurred on by the delirium of storming the books in the Crimson Hexagon: books of a smaller than ordinary format, omnipotent, illustrated, magical.",
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   "title": "the comeback album…",
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   "title": "Tradition and the Individual Seismograph, or, Developing the Historical Poetics of Some Themes Introduced in Lee Sharks' \"Pearl\"",
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   "title": "BACKLASH: The New Human Illiterati",
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   "The Crimson Hexagon",
   "All That Lies within Me: An Autobiography in Verse",
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   "Minimal Graffito: A History Including Poems",
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   "Day and Night: An Anthology of the Greek Lyric Poets, Translated and Introduced by Lee Sharks"
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   "Louis Zukofsky",
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   "Muriel Rukeyser",
   "LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka",
   "Charles Bernstein",
   "Steve McCaffery",
   "Susan Howe",
   "Harryette Mullen",
   "Juliana Spahr",
   "Peter Gizzi",
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   "Saul Williams",
   "Tao Lin",
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  "Alain Boudreau": "French critic, quoted in the contributor bio reviewing Rebekah Crane's Day and Night",
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