Stories
Poetry
Language under pressure until the extra words leave.
It sits with letterpress, memoir, and the editing of any sentence that has to carry weight.
Poets often have a physical sense of the line, closer to music than to argument.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside poetry reads “language under pressure.” It tends to meet letterpress, memoir, and radio.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
The Library Book, Susan Orlean. Read it beside poetry: A library as a public room full of private obsessions.