LATELY BREAKING

1. "The Truth is always Experimentall"--Gerard Wistanley, founder of The Diggers--quoted by Donald Revell in The Art of Attention

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2. To write a poem is to crawl under a fence and find a world that would've been unfathomable on the other side. Revision is making the new world make sense without tearing down the fence.

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3. Recently assembling a new manuscript--which for me is like trying to assemble a 5000 word jigsaw puzzle without having the box top--I'm frustrated.

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4) Noisee [sic] Musick [sic] Experimentall [sic]

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5) "I commence to make art in order to make sense."--Marc Bamuthi Joseph

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6) Stuart Dischell's new one Backwards Days--"In the Manner of SD" and "Tale of the Garret"--I'm bowled over!