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"In Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, which collects a series of lectures from 1990, she explores 'the strange science of writing' through three key 'moments of apprenticeship': the School of the Dead, where the writer learns to reckon with the mystery of mortality; the School of Dreams, where she learns to follow the destabilizing, defamiliarizing logics of dreams; and the School of Roots, where she learns to ground herself in rootlessness."

"Obsessed with Emily Wilson saying that for most of the Iliad, Achilles' job was beach" --@BelovedOfOizys (via @poemakontsa)

"When I leaned over to inspect a low shelf of Taschen cookbooks, the proprietary animal, a small beagle named Nutmeg, waddled over, sat on my foot and gazed at me."

   stuttering spirit passage
   apace in crisp whispers
   vigil among magics
   menacing swatch otchkies
   in search of groves savage
   assembled pinch-inchmeal
& the ice-hewn isthmus smiles
   Nixonian frith frolic

God Reasons.