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Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. PREDICTIONARY is about blank spaces in language and culture and their formative role in conceptual and artistic creativity. It is a dictionary of would-be words that are designed to fill gaps in language and generate new concepts and meanings. Focused on the creative potential of a neologism and a dictionary entry, this book is dedicated to both poetry and poetics.

"There is a great deal of joy in this project, and playfulness that is rarely encountered in contemporary thinkers.... One of the movtives of this project is to find a language for what our systems of meaning exclude or render unimaginable."
Mary Cappello, Professor of English, University of Rhode Island"

155 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

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July 23, 2016
the neologizing is obnoxious and uninspiring, but the blank spaces debate yields (" fruit ")

though he contradicts what he's driving at by calling the " "s 'white holes'
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