On Denise Riley
The LRB Podcast
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Riley's Awkwardness
The scaffold of verse contains, or as you said earlier, harnesses the naked crime. I think it's because of that that you're allowed greater tonal range in a part song. A part song is a bivourer performance and similar to a tiny sleigh record of defeat. The essay prose is rational for not being metered a part song which is metered measured, is closer to a naked cry. You mentioned the piece that she's written, almost as many books on feminism, motherhood, and linguistics as she has collections of verse. It's sort of horribly ironic that a part song and time lived without its flow could almost be seen as the culmination of
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