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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 Essayist, a Non Habitual Language

The essayist is creating her composition in the transitional zones of the contemporary as unclassified, non formulac temporal space. It takes everything we think we know and everything noisily, silently unknowable to form the patterns that will eventually give visibility to the meaning of things. In other words, imagine a non habitual language as a way for children to learn how to live,. How to compose their living.

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