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>|we should get away from the "binary" vision of an open and shut
>|case, and acknowledge the shades in between. Ajarness?
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>I like the idea of ajar poetry
>Makes it easy for the poet to come and go without disturbing another doing
>the crossword
>or the national lottery
>helps solve the problem of family commitments - slip away in silence
>
>you can go in and out of volumes and steal whatever you need - leave the
>borrowers to knock on the door
Hi Lawrence--
cf. Andre Breton: "I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only
in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys."
That's _Nadja_ (in Richard Howard's translation), p. 18.
best
Keith
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