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"It's as if the constraint possesses a diacritique of its own, a meaning-supplement to what might otherwise be considered fill."

"RAVING has been selling nicely. A trade press would be happy with these numbers. But trade presses hardly ever publish books that offer concepts, on the assumption there's no market for that. But ppl are hungry for concepts that articulate their experience." (my italics)

"It's true enough that in the academy most of the training is in how to do commentary on 100 year old conceptual writing, rather than actually writing it now. Nothing wrong with that but it creates a specialist literature.

It's much harder than it looks, and harder than it needs to be, to write in between the academic / trade divide. Particularly when you reject the model of dumbing-down conceptual work as patronizing." --@mckenziewark

"Midnight intombed December's naked icebound gulf..."

(14-vowel riddle: Poets)

my children babble

weird sounds

though thought safe

coined off rune-books

20-Consonant Poetry. Also 14-vowel sound poetry...Mine. (Note that my version of the mnemonic substitutes "oy veh!" for "a joy" since the article is not a long vowel sound here.)