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{{Short description|Book by Billy Corgan}}
{{infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name         = Blinking with Fists
| image        = Blinkingwithfistscover.jpeg
| author       = [[Billy Corgan]]
| cover_artist = [[Yelena Yemchuk]]
| country      = United States
| language     = English
| genre        = [[Poetry]]
| publisher    = [[Faber and Faber]]
| release_date = 2004
| media_type   = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages        = 84 pp (hardback edition)
| isbn = 0-571-21189-5
| isbn_note = (hardback edition)
| dewey= 811/.6 22
| congress= PS3603.O7344 B55 2004
| oclc= 54881947
}}

'''''Blinking with Fists''''' is the debut book of [[poetry]] by [[The Smashing Pumpkins]] and former [[Zwan]] frontman, [[Billy Corgan]]. The progress and writing of the poems was covered in Corgan's blogs. The Volume of 57 poems was published by [[Faber and Faber]] in 2004 and received mixed reviews. [[Dwight Garner (critic)]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that "at its best, ''Blinking With Fists'' is vivid and angular and not much worse than many first books of poems that arrive with heady praise from the poetry world's burghers."<ref name="nytimes">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/books/review/21TBR.html|title=Inside the List|work=New York Times|first=Dwight|last=Garner|date=November 21, 2004|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130115025/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/books/review/21TBR.html?_r=0|archive-date=January 30, 2013|access-date=June 20, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>  ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave the effort a "D," calling the poems "both pretentious and confoundingly esoteric."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Geier |first1=Thom |title=Celebrity Poetry Slam |url=https://ew.com/article/2004/09/17/celebrity-poetry-slam/ |website=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=20 June 2020 |date=17 September 2004}}</ref> The book peaked at #24 on the [[New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' Best Seller list]].

The jacket of the book was designed by Charlotte Strick and the artwork and author photograph are by [[Yelena Yemchuk]], who was involved with artwork for The Smashing Pumpkins. Interior design is by Gretchen Achilles.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://archive.today/20120630233704/http://billycorgan.livejournal.com/tag/poetry]

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