Poetry. "These ionized pellets came to me over a span of years, in no particular order, according to no preconceived plan, except for their 6-5-6 syllable count.... In arranging them for print, I arbitrarily grouped them, more or less, by the personal pronoun sequence: me-you-him/her/it-us-you-them. What do you know! They turn out to sound like a kooky confession-cum-diatribe. But a completely random arrangement might have suited them as well or better.... Consider cutting up this book, baking each snippet of text into a ...
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Poetry. "These ionized pellets came to me over a span of years, in no particular order, according to no preconceived plan, except for their 6-5-6 syllable count.... In arranging them for print, I arbitrarily grouped them, more or less, by the personal pronoun sequence: me-you-him/her/it-us-you-them. What do you know! They turn out to sound like a kooky confession-cum-diatribe. But a completely random arrangement might have suited them as well or better.... Consider cutting up this book, baking each snippet of text into a fortune cookie, heaping the cookies into a bowl next to a microphone, and inviting a crowd to line up for the recital."--from the author's introduction
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