"Poetry shows up where language shows up – a mysterious supplement, to borrow or deform an old Derrida epithet, that we cannot do without, and that just might be the basis of the material world as we know it. Well, if not language as such, then sound…"
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On poetry in “INTERVIEW WITH ARIANA REINES” in The White Review (July 2019)
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