the hours are too reasonable

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also this week:

lovely, heard backburner as a verb

finished l=a=etc. no.s 1 & 2

read eleni s's poetics of the exclamation point (a duration pdf chap).. i like the chatty bits and how they are swooped into and away from by exclamations on limited edition yeatsian wings.

read von kleist's essay on the marionette theater.. beautiful opening anecdote about the body's center of gravity and the agency of limbs, but the cumulative bang is this: "grace appears most purely in that human form which either has no consciousness or an infinite consciousness that is in the puppet or in the god."

jeremy made this gorgeous poem from the trib. and his blog over here, a great compass, introcuced me to the work of p washburn. nevelson meets globalism? how she talks about process- i'm fizzling, time for lunch- me likey.