this actually is a great answer. it really is up to the reader to render
the experience. your work is so striking because you have such an
attitude toward and regard for each word.
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Allen Bramhall:
Thanks for reading, and your comments.
Sheila Murphy asked me to write about my take-offs on John's poems about a year ago, and I could think of nothing to say, other than that it was "fun" to do so.
In the same way I don't know how to review your book. My mind does not seem to
work that way anymore. Gertrude Stein has destroyed my brain, and turned me in
a different direction. It's not what the words mean, or even how they sound,
but simply the words themselves:
squirm, flatter, senile, wring, odious, thwart, writhing, roving, poultice, billowy,
avail, pinions, anew, hoarfrost, tint, diadem, smother, breastplate, nosegay, catapult,
winnow, flinty, belch, niche. There are millions of 'em, it seems. "O my soul,
praise the Lord."
Best, blessings, peace,
Bob BrueckL
