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#1
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yellowish haze
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09-05-2008
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Re: Thomas Wiloch 1953-2008: A Personal Tribute by Thomas Ligotti
This is an enormous loss. I greatly enjoyed the last three volumes of prose poems by Thomas Wiloch. He was a brilliant writer. I'm shocked and saddened by this news.
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#3
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The Silent One
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09-06-2008
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Re: Thomas Wiloch 1953-2008: A Personal Tribute by Thomas Ligotti
It is painful to think that not merely a brilliant writer, but such a seemingly wonderful person is no longer among us. Another small blow to a shambling world.
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#5
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The New Nonsense
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09-06-2008
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Re: Thomas Wiloch 1953-2008: A Personal Tribute by Thomas Ligotti
This is terribly sad news....... Wiloch's dark wit will be greatly missed. It's rare for a poet to be simultaneously bleak AND somewhat playful -- tongue-in-cheek, yet dripping with menace.
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#6
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Laffo
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09-07-2008
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Re: Thomas Wiloch 1953-2008: A Personal Tribute by Thomas Ligotti
Tom Wiloch authored some of the most fiercely powerful prose I've ever read, to my mind singlehandedly rescuing the genre "prose poetry" from being completely written off as academic bull####. Reading his work leaves me awestruck and jealous. Never exactly "readily available," I imagine his books will now be nearly impossible to find. I highly recommend that you get them while you can.
He was also a genuinely wonderful person. I spent a number of years working with him in a place that crushed the spirits of many, and yet I don't remember ever seeing him in a bad mood. He always found a way to make himself and others laugh, even (or especially) when things were falling apart around us. I miss him already. |
#7
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Alligator Gar
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09-07-2008
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Re: Thomas Wiloch 1953-2008: A Personal Tribute by Thomas Ligotti
One's body is one's best disguise. Wiloch was a big silver-haired man who always smiled. Who would have known the man had so much blood in him? Catch him alone in the echoing corridors of a decayed skyscraper, on an abandoned floor, in the darkness of a boarded-up office--you'll see the razor blade clenched in those sharp teeth.
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#8
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the_havoc_man
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09-07-2008
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Re: Thomas Wiloch 1953-2008: A Personal Tribute by Thomas Ligotti
This is sad news. I was not aware of this but, I can't wait to read Wiloch's work.
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#9
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gorelets
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09-14-2008
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Re: Thomas Wiloch 1953-2008: A Personal Tribute by Thomas Ligotti
Just heard the news... I love Wiloch's writing and would also include him in any list of the top prose poets of the genre, ever. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful memory about the copy machine encounter and the following tribute. The final poem is deeply moving.
-- Mike Arnzen |
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