The One on Earth: Works of Mark Baumer: Selected Works of Mark Baumer (Fence Modern Prize in Prose) - Softcover

Baumer, Mark

 
9781944380182: The One on Earth: Works of Mark Baumer: Selected Works of Mark Baumer (Fence Modern Prize in Prose)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1944380183 ISBN 13: 9781944380182
Verlag: FENCE BOOKS, 2021

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Fiction. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Edited by Blake Butler. Mark Baumer wrote like he was trying to have a consciousness, like he's trying to avoid feeling anything; then it's like he's working really hard to feel more. It's like he's a child of the internet plus Wendell Berry, an anti-folk folksy speaker navigating the industries of gigs and professional writing culture. Baumer's life was ended by an SUV in January of 2017 while he was walking barefoot across America for the second time to draw attention to climate change. Baumer was a prolific wizard of non sequitur and displacement, and these writings show the maturation of an absurdist conscience, applying itself to inequities of access: power, security, and meaning itself, within the confines of America and within that the contemporary professionalized writing culture.

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Mark Baumer was a prolific writer, activist, and digital native. Born and raised in Durham, Maine, he was a graduate of the MFA program at Brown University, after which he became a "web content specialist," a climate activist, and a labor organizer in Providence, RI. A member of the group FANG (Fighting Against Natural Gas Convergence), he walked barefoot across America to draw attention to climate change. His work is continued by the Mark Baumer Sustainability Fund.

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Stock Tips for All the Unpublished Authors Trying to Get Rich1. I’m a very experienced stock market analyst. Just the other day, I was eating free croutons at the salad bar inside my local Wal-Mart (WMT:$86.79).2. Even though gasoline prices are down, almost every unpublished author in America is extremely poor and depressed.3. Did you see that tweet (TWTR: $35.75) about the guy eating grapes who got so depressed he took a picture of the grape stems when he was done with all the grapes?4. Even though I’m an unpublished author, I am almost rich enough to be happy.5. It took me a long time to figure this out, but the stock market isn’t like scrabble. In fact, even if you do a double word bonus on your scrabble board your financial portfolio will not get any of those points.6. Most published authors probably don’t need any financial advice because they already have six million free croutons in their bank account.7. Technically, I’ve made zero dollars from my investments.8. In fact, since I began investing three weeks ago, my portfolio is down nine dollars and two cents.9. The first thing you need to know about buying stocks is that you’re not in high school anymore … unless you’re young enough to still be in high school. In that case, congratulations, you haven’t done anything with your life yet.10. One really interesting thing to remember about stock prices is that a stock price is also an approximation of how many people own that stock. For example, the stock price for krispy kreme donuts (KKD) is $19.83 which means about 19.83 people own KKD stock. This is the reason why google (GOOGL) stock is so expensive. About 534.23 people own GOOGL stock.11. If I was a severely depressed unpublished author, I would probably steal my dad’s bank account information and invest all his money in Wendy’s/Arby’s stock (WEN: $9.16) then I would stand outside every Burger King (BKW: $35.80) in America and handout directions to the nearest Wendy’s/Arby’s store.12. High school was a weird time for all unpublished authors, but you can make up for all that weirdness if you just invest enough money in the stock market.13. The people who own stock in Caterpillar (CAT: $92.70) don’t even have to like caterpillars or cats. All they have to do is pay the insect queen.14. I’m still not quite sure what happens to everyone’s money while it’s invested, but I have a feeling it all gets put in a special cloud. That’s why acid rain used to turn my mom’s hair green when she showered. Luckily, wall street fixed their clouds and they’re no longer lined with copper.15. One special perk of owning Starbucks stock (SBUX) is you can go to any Starbucks location and buy coffee at no extra charge. You literally pay the exact same amount as anyone else who doesn’t own Starbucks stock.16. To get rich in the stock market you just have to figure out what company is going to win the best.17. I bet all the companies in the world have secret laboratories.18. And probably, right now, most of those secret laboratories are trying to figure out how to invent a technique of harvesting poop and then converting it into food that can be resold to everyone.19. Sort of like Ebay (EBAY: $57.21).20. But if I were going to put my money on anyone successfully achieving a marketable poop to mouth service, the easy choice would be Yum! Brands (YUM: $73.32) and its warehouse of taco bell, kfc, and pizza hut. Unfortunately, it’s not really an affordable investment strategy for unpublished authors which is weird because whenever I go into a taco bell or kfc its always filled with nothing but unpublished authors.21. Also worth noting, whether or not you are still in high school, the stock market doesn’t care. All it cares about is turning two chicken nuggets into three chicken nuggets.22. If it were up to me I would let Sprint (S: $4.10) win the best because their stock is really cheap. We should all buy a share of Sprint then if it wins we each get a million dollars.23. The really sad thing is there once was a perfect stock for unpublished authors.24. But then it got bought out by another company who was then also bought out.25. The name of this perfect investment opportunity for unpublished authors was Novell (NOVL).26. Novell was bought out in November 2010 by Attachmate at $5.85 a share.27. NOVL stock no longer exists which I guess is sort of fitting because every novel by every unpublished author probably won’t exist in a few years either.Excerpt from “Science Animal”This science was the forty-sixth volume of animal.Each member of the science received an allowance of one handmade wooden crown.An isolated element in the process of science looked at the process of science and thought, “Why?” The process of science looked at the isolated element and thought, “I don’t know.”Animal diseases were found in several different farms.Restrictions were required to form new operational methods but it’s important to remember science already knew the answer.If the center of an animal was removed from a body, the center would continue to blink warmly until its love was no longer a burden.Equations containing animals were difficult.Science had very little patience for excess amounts of untrained movement.A thirty-six-year-old science and a thirty-seven-year-old science tried to determine if their results were potentially useful.During an investigation of the heart when the foot of an animal was removed the nerves remained excited and muscles contracted.Pieces of this science were not always science.It was unclear how to process the resolution of doubt.Known voltages were partially a source of conditional existence.Weather claimed it was the first science.Not Ted Cruz (Mark’s Tinder Bio)One day I will probably die of something Ichose not to acknowledge or fix.Someone once told me I belong on the moonbut until then I’ll just be alone in my room.I’m just trying to not die while swimming acrossthe universe’s great river of loneliness.Sometimes I want to put my phone in a sockand beat the internet with it.Please don’t stuff any waffles in themetaphorical gas tank attached to my neck. Statement of Plans” (as submitted in Mark’s application for a Wallace Stegner Fellowship)On July 1, 2016 I will leave Providence Rhode Island and begin running west. After about fifty or sixty days of running I will arrive on the West Coast. To accomplish this I will need to run an average of fifty miles a day. In 2010, when I walked across America in eighty-one days I walked an average of thirty miles a day. The human body was never meant to be as weak as we’ve allowed it to become. Running fifty miles a day is no more impossible than any other aspect that is the insanity of the American way of life.Once I arrive in San Francisco I will build an eight-by-eight-by-eight-foot box. This is where I will live. It should not take more than two days. The inside of the box will be outfitted with a few blankets, a spoon, a bowl, and a battery hooked to a solar panel on the roof of the box. I hope to exist in my new home with as few possessions as possible.For the next three months I will practice the same daily routine seven days a week. It will involve: waking up at four a.m., meditating for twenty minutes, writing/editing for an hour, practicing qigong, going for a jog, eating breakfast, reading for three or four hours, meditating at noon for twenty minutes, eating lunch, visiting with friends, walking, eating dinner, and falling asleep by eight p.m. Part of me would like to make a list of books I will write over these four months, but I’d rather be both flexible and open enough to take advantage of whatever ideas my new home will present to me.Over the winter break, I will travel to the top of America with a...

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Verlag
FENCE BOOKS
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1944380183
ISBN 13 
9781944380182
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
245
Herausgeber
Butler Blake, Jones Shane
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