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Alessandro Raina: Colonia Paradi'es

Ian Penman, The Wire, January 2000

THIS SCRATCHY PLAINT from pastoral Italy makes other Big Releases sound fatally self-absorbed, and too much in thrall to reigning paradigms; its topography of smaller Otherness a timely reminder that there are other trails, forgotten backroads, other ways to be rhizomatic.

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