“I miss circumstance
already—
the way a single word
could mean
necessary, relative,
provisional
and a bird flicks past
leaving
the sense that one
has waved one’s hand.”
Armantrout, Rae. “Greeting.” Collected Prose. San Diego: Singing Horse Press, 2007. p. 115.
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“Let us
move fast
enough, in a small
enough space, and
our travels
will take first
shape, then substance.”
Armantrout, Rae. “The Creation.” Collected Prose. San Diego: Singing Horse Press, 2007. p. 76.
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“So I wanted to write something filled with gaps and words tossed, and words touching, words crowding each other, letters mixing and falling away from each other, commands and dreams verticals and circles. If it was impossible to print, that didn’t matter.”
Howe, Susan. The Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American Literary History. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1993. p. 175.
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““So I wanted to write something filled with gaps and words tossed, and words touching, words crowding each other, letters mixing and falling away from each other, commands and dreams verticals and circles. If it was impossible to print, that didn’t matter.”
Howe, Susan. The Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American Literary History. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1993. p. 175.
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University Press Books
“So I wanted to write something filled with gaps and words tossed, and words touching, words crowding each other, letters mixing and falling away from each other, commands and dreams verticals and circles. If it was impossible to print, that didn’t matter.”
Howe, Susan. The Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American Literary History. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1993. p. 175.
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University Press Books
“So I wanted to write something filled with gaps and words tossed, and words touching, words crowding each other, letters mixing and falling away from each other, commands and dreams verticals and circles. If it was impossible to print, that didn’t matter.”
Howe, Susan. The Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American Literary History. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1993. p. 175.
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University Press Books
“Echo cannot stop reflecting the original enchantment of the good mother beyond representation, her eye of nature absorbed in surface azure of poise and balance, rhythmic rise and fall of words, their deep ecology and threads of Divinity.”
Howe, Susan. Debths. New York, NY: New Directions, 2017. p. 16.
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“Echo cannot stop reflecting the original enchantment of the good mother beyond representation, her eye of nature absorbed in surface azure of poise and balance, rhythmic rise and fall of words, their deep ecology and threads of Divinity. Hush be quiet deep-green pagan marvels.”
Howe, Susan. Debths. New York, NY: New Directions, 2017. p. 16.
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