Ruled

[cbertsch]

People sometimes ask me why I don't write in my books. "I don't write in my books anymore," I tell them. This is why:

The underlining in red is from the fall of 1994. It postdates the underlining in black by several years. What you can't see here are the eraser marks that indicate where I erased a line for not being straight enough or a word for being too sloppily formed. Yes, "the distracted person, too, can form habits," particularly when those habits constitute the perfect distraction.

Comments

[jakemacalister.livejournal.com]

LOL. My lit. crit. class was so shitty that I had to look up your reference. I chuckled after I did a little reading. I mean shitty, it was a terrible book with no help at all from the prof. We read his poetry (very, very, bad--William Carlos Williams knock-offs) and analyzed that. It is hard to do a New Criticism critique with the poet standing over your shoulder. "Look at how I physically shifted the lines of the poem to give a visual representation of meandering--see the structure . . . what do you mean Northrope Fry?"

He then had the audacity to try to low-pass me on my comps . . . funny none of his poems showed up on those.