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...finished Palmer's Sun yesterday afternoon...then read his The Circular Gates ('74 Black Sparrow Press) then read his The Danish Notebook ('00 Avec)...surprised at how well The Danish Notebook and Sun compliment each other...esp. for my thesis...esp. for the vague distinctions between the analytic lyric vs. the lyric analytic...also read a bit from The Middle English Lyric anthology put out by Oxford...and a bit of Jabes' The Book Of Questions...

...in an interview with Cross-Cultural Poetics radio host Leonard Schwartz (just after In The Company Of Moths was published) Palmer used the word interrogative to describe Jabes' work (book of questions duh)...that's the beat...and exactly the sort of adjective i was looking for to write about the DuPlessis/ Palmer Analytic Lyric...so, if that's okay with you i'm gonna steal that in part...

also watched a Pierre Joris reading from SF State's The Poetry Center 02 (?) this afternoon (i was at the reading) over Summer Sausage salami, sharp deli chedder cheese, homemade honey-mustard and a Fuji apple...nothin' like watching Pierre chop it up about Dante and Nimrod with a litttle honey-mustard zing in the mouth!

and because i have no computer at the moment (thanks Hot Whiskey for towing me up the hill!) i'm at the computer lab right now...though when i get my computer back it's going to be 10 times improved...i bought a bunch of new ram plus dudes are going to update all my software/firmware gratis...

also because i don't have a computer at the moment i've been getting some creative work done (on Mouf)...which hasn't happend since before the x-mas break (not totally true, just mostly)...and that's actually why i'm at the lab, not to blog, but to type/revise/print that new work...the bulk side of Mouf (that is, the untouched initial writing of it) is just about complete...possibly one more movement of about 15 pages then major reworking...Mouf is also my creative thesis so there's impetus...

...currently listening to the inimitable hum of 100 computers...