65. uncool loins

"I also had already given langpo a starting date, the appearance of Robert Grenier’s essay 'On Speech' in the inaugural issue of This in 1971."

pyramaskberg
la libellule
old textbook
you are forgiven

algebricolage
dinged
floor never cleaned
calcspar starless

misty
in this clearing

"What I don’t tell them—or what I sometimes tell them, but nobody can hear until it’s happened to them—is that even if you get a book published with a good publisher, and it does okay, you will still experience it as a terrible wound to your ego in most cases. Some people completely crack up, even though their book seemed to do fine. That’s because, somehow, you think that people will be changed by your book. You think your life will be changed, and the world will, too. There will be at least some ripple in the pool. But your book was just another book, and that is very hard to take."