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“Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.” ~Walter Benjamin, critic and philosopher...

“The impulse that originally gave us the prose poem, in fact, beginning with Aloysius Bertrand and predecessors, then shaped by the surrealists and progeny, was the drive to disconnect from the rigidity of formal...

Haiku doesn’t come that easily for me – I come up with phrases that are three or four syllables, not five or seven I have trouble describing just what is there I’m always trying...

…that story unraveled as tho it had been written down since Day 1 in the great dusty blue velvet Book of Joyluck. How did you know my birthday comes later this month and you...

More chinar concepts: “Druskin invented the chinar term a certain equilibrium with a slight peccadillo in 1933. Its meaning is deliberately vague, but the peccadillo is, as it were, departure from dead symmetry by...

A discovery, courtesy of jubilat volume nine: “The philosopher Yakov Semenovich Druskin (1902-1980) belonged to an underground philosophical and literary circle that was active in Leningrad in the 1920s and ’30s. Its members, who...

Tiny dogs (two, one fat white chihuahua and one pouffy black Pomeranian) Manikins made of sheets of clear plastic, cunningly cut to make three-dimensional people that presumably fold flat for storage Manikins made of...