Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Great Regulars: In this collection, she has arranged her

numbered prose stanzas in groups of eight to twelve, embedding in each group a quotation that she calls an inlay. These inlays are brief, even fragmented, lines from thinkers past and present, ranging from Ruskin to Lévi-Strauss to Sontag. The idea of the poetic inlay, [Donna] Stonecipher explains in a note to the reader, came to her while viewing a museum display of inlaid furniture.

from Powells: Review-A-Day: Curiosity in Motion

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