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The Power of Words, Part II: Things

Posted on 2. June 2014 by Nancy Pinard

–Say it, no ideas but in things– nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident– split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained– secret–into the body of the light! from Paterson: Book I That’s … Continue reading →

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The Power of Words, Part I

Posted on 30. May 2014 by Nancy Pinard

Words are keeping me awake–the words of a friend I last saw when I was eighteen.  From the sky into my inbox, the words exploded in a world I hadn’t conjured in a long, long time. We played remember when, … Continue reading →

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