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Jenny Gough
Mary & Shelly's Fair Copy Book 55 pages |
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Much has been said about the virtues of active reading but
how much poetry really draws the mind's to read in every possible direction
on the page, to puzzle and configure as it goes in sensual and intellectual
and ecstatic pleasure? Jenny Gough's "Fair Copy Book" does this
in its vocabularies of history and wit and terror--using Wollstonecraft,
Shelly, Rousseau and much more than meets the eye and ear thus opened
and alert, ready to navigate an "interlineated abyss" in at
least 16 lineaments of linguistic joy. Toward--is it "Ocean res"
or "resorts obscured by the sun"? Both, of course. The arrow
of time stops and goes in both directions by chance and intention in this
astonishing composition. |