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Rereading this

I concur with Coover – "Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's" is a bona-fide, goddamn masterpiece and, quite frankly, if Mr Gass had only written this one novella, he would deserve a place in the Pantheon. I read the whole thing in one glorious go, with my mouth open, salivating and drooling amid the great piles of delicious prose. Yummy Yummy in my Tummy….

I love most when he dances on the edge of the Purple - "Now I am the ex of ist I am the am I always should have been. Now I am this hiss this thin this brisk I'm rich in vital signs, in lists I in my time could not make, the life I missed because I was afraid, the hawk's eye, owl's too, weasel's greed, the banter of boys, bang, bleeding paper blown into a bush,

I am off to bed suitably word-drunk and bedazzled