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Hanif Abdurraqib

Columbus
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writer of some books // curator: 68to05.com // Ohioan
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Three Poems - The Rumpus

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By Hanif Abdurraqib
| The Rumpus
I text someone I love & miss we are closer to tomorrow than we’ve ever been before while sitting in the back of a car with its engine groaning through a wall of traffic because there is a man in the middle of the street wandering back and forth & singing a song I cannot make out but the way he’s singing it tells me it is a love song by which I mean he is twirling into each vowel long & slow like he will miss it once the last of it trickles into the air which is humid today & thick with misery...
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Ben Gibbard on Breaking Out of Lyrical Jail

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By Hanif Abdurraqib
| The New Yorker Verified
Hunger for nostalgia is not unique to the music fan, but the music fan has a tendency to consume as much nostalgia as is placed in front of them, for as long as it is there.
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Hanif Abdurraqib on “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times”

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By Hanif Abdurraqib
| Paste Verified
Of all the magic that exists within the archive of in-process recordings that would become The Pet Sounds Sessions, I have always been drawn to the clips of isolated vocals that came from them. The isolated vocal take of “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times” that appears on the sessions is woven with a kind of ache that is, of course, present in the finished version, but at its most naked and uninterrupted by instrumentation, it takes on a different hue.
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