Saturday, April 19

Just do it, Menno, the flash screens, and all the other stuff, and get back to our conversation from last night, please, if you would.

Am perusing one of the neatest, most neatly organized, and useful sites I've come across: arras. I think the designer/editor is one Brian Kim Stefans. Anyway, there's a review of Rae Armantrout's The Pretext, among several other reviews by Stefans. My hunch after reading the first one is that they're all very, very good, fwiw. I love these lines viligantly regarding "the community we," as Frederick Crews used to call it in his Random House Handbook:

If I turn on the news,
someone will say, 'We
mean business.'

Which I read as the news referring to "we" that means mostly "them," Big Business, never everybody, and Armantrout delicately and gently reminds "us" to watch the communities' uses of that scandalously abused pronoun.

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