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ISBN 13: 978-1-890311-30-8 98 pgs, Cover by the author
Maybe we had it all wrong. Maybe it’s all exterior. Maybe certain hierarchies fall when everything—found and unfound—gets in. Maybe not as things, but as “as octopus / on the porch snow / still now a comma / a ticket a timetable.” Or maybe “We are going to get serious [page break] about project management / we are going to spend a lot of money on project / management software to prove it.” Maybe we are. Maybe Mel Nichol’s Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon is just that. —Robert Fitterman In Mel Nichols’ uncanny world each day unfolds into the next line and then into inexplicable music. We find: “the body / with handfuls of / white petals / dropping on the long / dark keys of spring.” Wow. Her voice is acute, active, up close, and magisterial all at once. A dazzling achievement. —Peter Gizzi
so if the giraffe lived with me in the converted barn along with a lover a dog a race car
among others and other things we had to scrub the data today we had to give the dog a bath today wash the dog's bed brush my teeth and so on
we are not flattened as much as by work
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