Sentences that sing
Beautiful, devasting sentences of all kinds
Sentences that sing
The British sociologist Marilyn Strathern ... taught me that “it matters what ideas we use to think other ideas (with).” ... It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots; what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions,... See more
Mandy Brown • The case for rereading
Donna Haraway - Staying with the Trouble via Mandy Brown
We are a wordy species. Words are the wings both intellect and imagination fly on.
Ursula K. Le Guin — ‘The Operating Instructions’
I can’t tell if we’re stuck with this design because it’s familiar, or if it’s familiar because we’re stuck.
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
Mandy Brown
Amy Key on one of her friend’s poems
“It was the Fourth of July, and I had forgotten all of wide space and all of historical time. I opened the blinds a crack like eyelids, and it all came exploding in on me at once—oh yes, the world.” — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
I had a strange sensation this morning, an ‘I want to write a poem’ feeling but then I realised I wanted to write a poem I’ve already written several times. For what it’s worth, I think its ok to repeat yourself, I kind of enjoy that in other writers - sitting with them as they loop around the same intractable problem, but the desire made me read s... See more
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