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John Berryman Reacts to a Phrase by R. P. Blackmur

Throughout our range of motion exercisesthe stock of available reality remains constant.We meet our limits with the support of an armand stop speaking of inner resources.That talk is for opera stars on Olympus,not we with tongues thrust on sand. When, … Continue reading

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Kenneth Goldsmith User’s Manual Part 2

nobility…. is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without. It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. —Wallace Stevens, from The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words [page 665 The Library of … Continue reading

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Monday with Pessoa (and Stevens and Rilke)

No matter how much we take off what we wear, we’ll never reach nakedness, which is a phenomenon of the soul and not of removing clothes. —Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, p 221 It has always been my particular madness … Continue reading

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