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Napoleon & the Classic Negroni
Today at StartleResponse.com we pay homage to process. StartleResponse.com possesses great reverence for process, the act of methodically and thoughtfully working through an undertaking. That undertaking could be as simple as brewing an espresso or writing a thank-you note. There is something highly satisfying about applying process to these tasks. Do we buy our coffee…
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Poor Gal & The Southerly
TODAY WE PAIR POOR GAL WITH SOUTHERN DELICACIES While many citizens retreated, and anti-vaxxers anti-vaxxed, and the healthcare worker universe became an insular and obsessed organism, Dan Gutstein maintained a singular focus. Yes, the context of which I speak is the COVID pandemic. You know it well. You might have been tele-working, living in a…
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Buck Downs & Dan Post
StartleResponse.com shouts out to Buck Downs‘ Unintended Empire, a project showcasing both a writer and bookmaker (Furniture Press) at the top of their craft. As I noted in the preface to the book, the selection of poems typifies the muscular lyrical emotiveness of the writer’s work: The powder keg of aching loss meets a persistently altered physical…