blackheath books - UK
blackheath books
the next-to-latest (in saying this i admit that I'm a bit behind on things) book from billy childish is a collection of 41 poems that were written in the years 2008-9.
41 poems written from the perspective of a man who, when offered an opportunity to drink lies of dislocated praise and rigged acclaim, chose instead to put down the bottle.
in the epigraph childish references fyodor doestoevsky- "an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it's only the fool who becomes anything".
a running thread through many of childish's recent poems is that there's less value in becoming "someone" than there is in being "no one".
the 'no one' he speaks of is not a null or cipher, but an immoderate person who will exert whether broken or fit. one who can be deliberate but just as likely occasional. often times praiseworthy; but off the radar of social climbers.
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