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	<title>snowblood&#039;s parasol &#187; poetics of annihilation</title>
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		<title>oroboros : if i had a rocket launcher (bruce cockburn)</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2012/04/oroboros-if-i-had-a-rocket-launcher-bruce-cockburn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Cockburn wrote &#8220;If I Had A Rocket Launcher&#8221; in 1983 after spending time in Guatemalan refugee camps. He witnessed government helicopters coming to the camps, shooting and killing unarmed civilians. He witnessed things he couldn&#8217;t deal with very well. He ended up in a hotel, and with his scotch and his tears to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>refreshing the the poetics of annihilation</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2012/03/refreshing-the-the-poetics-of-annihilation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have our methods of recording, our films, our books, our internet. How can we face the weight of that violent fabric woven by those who went before us, and move forward without re-making that? 

How can us monkeys see but not do?]]></description>
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		<title>this is how they wait</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2012/03/this-is-how-they-wait/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 16 2012 somewhere around 5:30 pm a pedestrian went under the wheels of a metra express train. Delays were for 75 to 150 minutes. People at Des Plaines station were frantically calling for cabs or family members to pick them up, or trying to figure out buses. I started walking, to process a long day at work.

I headed towards the next station. I passed this metra train, waiting, in the dark.]]></description>
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		<title>the messenger of death (2009)</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/11/the-messenger-of-death-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the messenger of death (2009) my entry for clytemnestra reMix, a martha graham dance company project that allowed footage of ms. graham’s choreography for single characters from her archetypal piece clytemnestra to be manipulated by video artists.]]></description>
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		<title>the artist posed as bully</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/09/the-artist-posed-as-bully/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://drawclose.com/snowblood/?p=1245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Eminem argues with himself, his experience, his hatred in public. To answer hate with hate is to dance with him on his terms. ]]></description>
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		<title>the etiquette of ignorance : the bully</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/09/the-etiquette-of-ignorance-the-bully/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It the Bully&#8217;s world, there are no other human beings. There are things that walk around, bodies that are like dolls. The clothes people wear mark their social roles, determine their power-over-others. The Bully patrols public social places and enforces social roles as defined by appearances. The Bully asserts object-based social roles (by gender, by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>september eleventh two thousand one</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/09/september-eleventh-two-thousand-one/</link>
		<comments>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/09/september-eleventh-two-thousand-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I got to Colin's, he opened the door and I asked, "Do you have TV?" and he asked, "Do you have cigarettes?" The F-16's that were scrambled from outside of Boston buzzed the house in Jamaica Plain as we smoked on the porch after watching the second tower come down. 

We spent the rest of the day recording my super-slow violin performance of Ave Maria. That what I had planned to record that day.]]></description>
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		<title>how do we tell ourselves about war as it happens?</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/08/how-do-we-tell-ourselves-about-war-as-it-happens/</link>
		<comments>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/08/how-do-we-tell-ourselves-about-war-as-it-happens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During World War II they made posters. The exhibit includes display of stencils used to make one image, since most of these posters were made using spray paint and stencils in a modified printmaking technique. Each country used painterly images to talk about enduring the process of making war, giving faces of sorts to enemy leaders, and create images to tell the story of discovering the atrocities perpetuated in the Germans' Holocaust. Selections from Windows on the War at the Art Institute of Chicago.]]></description>
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		<title>how do we talk about it when we talk about atrocity?</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/07/how-do-we-talk-about-it-when-we-talk-about-atrocity/</link>
		<comments>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/07/how-do-we-talk-about-it-when-we-talk-about-atrocity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://drawclose.com/snowblood/?p=1197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I only know the media, with its cheap made-up stories built to 'tell us something first', fails us.]]></description>
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		<title>poem (the tiny knives of vengeance)</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/06/poem-vengeance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[oh, love, those pictures of yours
     this constellation flickering with reflections
the tiny knives of vengeance  ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;&#8230;a photograph of the violence you inflict is always &#8230; a self-portrait.&#8221; ~ Philip Gourevitch</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/05/a-photograph-of-the-violence-you-inflict-is-always-a-self-portrait-philip-gourevitch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 14:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["...a photograph of the violence you inflict is always ... a self-portrait." ~ Philip Gourevitch]]></description>
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		<title>poetics of annihilation : untitled (Iraq) by richard mosse (2009)</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/03/untitled-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/03/untitled-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[poem made of place-names from the Iraq war and closely-shot images of war's desert(ed) refuse.]]></description>
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		<title>in process : stills from i.thou : chapter ~ 19</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/02/in-process-stills-from-i-thou-chapter-19/</link>
		<comments>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/02/in-process-stills-from-i-thou-chapter-19/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[these stills are taken from a 4 minute sketch for the next chapter of i.thou, "19". the moshing or blends are part of a meditation on identity, memory, and the problem of unbelievable memoir. 

the still image of the girl named "19" is taken from the television show CSI. the source image (pre-processing and 'mosh') looks like the two stills that follow:]]></description>
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