Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus and the New York Times
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“Sometimes my stuff gives aperture as a leakage another good name.
Or. An identity. Often, I am not looking in a straightforward way at my subject’s eyes.
Eyes insinuate a relationship. Relationships will hurt you.
If I am using x-rayy technology, I am the one who manages where the eyes…
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Xrayy Photography Has Me By the Balls
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I do defy but by degrees most photos from the past but the past of what is another dimension and this one would be filled with light. Despite being quite a step forward in artificial lighting
development, the early chemicals used in photography were harsh and could only turn out…
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Year of the Hyena: Gay Soldiers in Vietnam
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Year of the Hyena, a Novel by Tim Barrus
Gay Soldiers in Vietnam
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Blue Ridge Baby
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Revenge has a few things to hang doubt upon. – Tim Barrus
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That These Vaults, too, Should Crack
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The weight of this sad time, and sing, and tell old tales we can do this. We can do more than just endure.
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Appalachia Kicks
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I live in Appalachia. Supposedly, this, too, is North Carolina. I live here because it’s cheap. Economics is the great leveler. I eat what I can grow. Why is that supposed to be a humiliation. This is the land of No One Makes Much Around Here Anyway. We are not…
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Road Trip
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I wake up in the morning with Romeo Void in my mouth. I will slit my wrists without coffee. Coffee. I go to work constructing Romeo. Knowing full well, the critics finally get the final say. Or do they. Get anything. Most of them will flog me (don’t even go…
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porch
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He sang songs in this rocker. And he forgot his hat.
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Pierre at Cap Breton
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Pierre at Cap Breton
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Do you like it? Boy, I Want, Want, Want, Whatchu Want, Want, Want, Give It 2 Me, Baby, Like Boom, Boom, Boom
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Do you like it?Boy, I want, want, want whatchu want, want, wantGive it to me, baby, like boom, boom, boomWhat I want, want, want is what you want, want, wantNah, nah-ah
Published as non-fiction, each memoir recounted purported aspects of the author’s life. The memoirs referred to his Navajo heritage,…