Notes Toward a Pamphlet Qassim Haddad

Notes Toward a Pamphlet Qassim HaddadArgentine poet Samich moves from the provinces to the outskirts of Buenos Aires and decides to turn his life into a work of art. Fumbling through a world constructed of intuitions and beliefs, he has scant preparation and few firm ideas about how to do this. Nonetheless, he develops a cult following. Fiction writer and essayist Sergio Chejfec offers a series of numbered notes as an outline of Samichs thinking in process, investigating the pamphlet

they celebrate poetry as ‘a small

a painting by Breughel

to see through their eyes

including Ploughshares

addressed to her mother during her mother's illness

basement clubs and squat parties

novels as well as poetry

the Runnymede Diggers

as well as a playfulness more reminiscent of Paul Muldoon at his riddling

the memoir also gives a sharply observed picture of

She won the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry in 2003

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