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6: Letters
Editors' Note
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
Dear Editors,
I SEE words on my forehead IN THE AIR on
other people on the typewriter on the page. These appear in the text in
CAPITALS or italics.
Best wishes, Hannah Weiner
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Dear Editors,
Not the word but the letter is the original
material of poetry.
Later, Kurt Schwitters
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from the desk of __________________
re:
______letters__________________
--look these up by next week
Johanna Drucker, Alphabetic
Labyrinth
Steve McCaffery and Jed Rasula anthology, Imagining Language
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Dear Editors,
A letter is naked matter breaking from form
from meaning. An anagram defies linear logic. Any letter of the alphabet may
contain its particular indwelling spirit. . . . I’ve never lost the sense that
words, even single letters, are images. The look of a word is part of its
meaning—the meaning that escapes dictionary definition, or rather doesn’t
escape but is bound up with it.
—Susan Howe
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Dear Editors,
The Letter is an explosion, the Word—a flock
of explosions . . .
Yrs., Vasily Kamensky
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Dear Editors,
Meaning is never simple (except in
mathematics), and the letters which form a word, though each of them is
rationally insignificant . . . keep searching, in us, for their freedom, which
is to signify something else.
Best, Roland Barthes
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Dear Editors,
Process this:
xxoo—Isidore Isou
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Dear Editors,
I’m using this epigraph from Hackluyt for my
new book. Hope you like it. "While you take in hand to school others, and to
teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving
out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the
signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true."
—Herman
Melville
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Dear Editors,
For the medium as well as the craftsman the
MAXIM is "REBEL"
Onward, Marius Lyle
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Dear Editors,
so adieu deelest Md Md Md FW FW Me Me Me
Lele I can say lele yet oo see—Fais I don’t conceal a bitt
yrs truly,
Jonathan Swift
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