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By Leslie Scalapino

Internationally famous as essentially the most leading edge writers in the US at the present time, Leslie Scalapino many times demanding situations the limits of many varieties within which she works—poetry, prose, performs, and extra. This extraordinary quantity contains paintings from sequential and serial poems written over thirty-two years. The poems display rules and innovations in writing, and the way one writing invention results in the following. 3 sequence are chosen from the lengthy poem way, about which Philip Whalen acknowledged, "She makes every little thing ensue in genuine time, within the gentle and air and evening the place we all stay, every thing occurring at once." fresh poems, reminiscent of these from "DeLay Rose," seem to depart the web page itself as a unmarried limitless line during which the activities of people and occurrences within the outdoors international are synonymous, mysterious, and simultaneous. It's move in horizontal is a stunning entryway into the oeuvre of a bold and robust writer.

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I don’t know how. Girl is seen walking on the street black on the bright billowing sky. She comes up to the (other), and then is on the other side. with the puffed illumined sky before the (other) reading memory only is rem Some homeless people are by the Safeway. where they congregate. opening tins someone has given them, as she goes out door and by them towards billowing sky. they’re sitting holding the tins the sky appearing to move These guys who attack her in the sense of bullying don’t do that to the individual.

There shouldn’t be any sex say; he should be in a normal state and have no sex actually occur then or around that time and then have it occur later. Have slower ability. A retarding of his ability in general, not just in this setting; and have other people who were there wearing everyday clothes, walking some. 23 I saw a man coming out of a grocery store carrying a package of sweet rolls or at any rate something that was sweet. He might live in one of the houses in the area. I’d bought some milk and a few things and I’d just had a feeling of wanting to throw them away, the thought coming to me though I’d just bought them.

We simply are in it. Yet we must try to be in it. I don’t know how. Girl is seen walking on the street black on the bright billowing sky. She comes up to the (other), and then is on the other side. with the puffed illumined sky before the (other) reading memory only is rem Some homeless people are by the Safeway. where they congregate. opening tins someone has given them, as she goes out door and by them towards billowing sky. they’re sitting holding the tins the sky appearing to move These guys who attack her in the sense of bullying don’t do that to the individual.

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