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This literally brought tears to my eyes when I saw it. It makes me feel jubilant! I can't wait to explore!

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Is it just me. . . .

or is most of the art on Tumblr surrealistic?

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Richard Howard writes of Gertrude Stein's writings become the 99th and 100th volumes of the Library of America.

It is evident, on this showing, that she transformed and often renewed every genre she ventured upon. Her theater -- which sallied forth as opera, as antiphon, as ballet, as film and ultimately, even classically, as a dialogue of persons -- became, whenever it reached the stage, something else: circus, singing games, a cross between voodoo and bullfighting. Her fiction remains her most authoritative success, largely on account of her early transformations of the esthetic preoccupations of Flaubert into the abstract fragmentation she claimed to derive from the painting she so shrewdly collected. Her poetry, which relied on an incomparable ear and an overwhelming preoccupation with emotional ritual, has yet to be assimilated to the canon, but at least it is represented here in full measure (surely the right word). Memoir, philosophical speculation, literary criticism and theory, all sorts of briefer forms that are hard to account for but easy to marvel at and even to delight in, pack these volumes, and constitute, as the editors surely intended us to discover, the most consistently achieved representation of new ways of responding to life and new possibilities of getting experience into words that American literature has to show. How lucky we and Gertrude Stein are, now to have it so compactly to hand -- so splendidly balanced in the choice of texts that it is a varying enchantment to read against texts it is a consistent chore to read. http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/reviews/980503.03howardt.html?_r=2

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Short passage in response to photo at Photograph Prose site. It's a great site for writers.

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By arrogance I mean that when you are writing you must assume that the next thing you put down belongs not for reasons of logic, good sense, or narrative development, but because you  put it there.  --Richard Hugo

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Grateful

I am so grateful to those who started following me today! I am enjoying all of your poetry and posts! Thank you so much.

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In You Face--An Animated Poem