Posts by: Rebecca Porte
They Want to Call You By Name
Whether or not you believe in evil or think that asserting your desires in the open is evidence of its existence, your position on these issues may determine how much you enjoy Jesse Sigler’s new collection of poems, Living Must Bury.
...moreThe Last Book I Loved: Francis Ponge’s The Voice of Things
Because you read me, dear reader,
therefore I am; because you read us
(my book and me), dear reader,
therefore we are (You, it and i).
–Francis Ponge
I have come back to it often, this book, whose title is variously translated as Things, The Voice of Things or Taking the Side of Things, not least because it asks me to.
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