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Composition of Life, as Life: A discussion of Joan Retallack’s The Poethical Wager (a several-page excerpt)

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The Language Game of the Exploratory, Experimental Essay

To get lost in the writing can be a way out of officially charted territory. Gertrude stein says this, enacts this emphatically in her own essays. To act out of one's unprecedented contemporariness is to be able to tolerate, even enjoy, not knowing where one is going. The language game of the exploratory, experimental essay is in dynamic intercourse with cultural contexts that form the developing rims of one's social world.

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