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The Printer's Error

Fellow compositors
and pressworkers!

I, Chief Printer
Frank Steinman,
having worked fifty-
seven years at my trade,
and served five years
as president
of the Holliston
Printer's Council,
being of sound mind
though near death,
leave this testimonial
concerning the nature
of printers' errors.

First: I hold that all books
and all printed
matter have

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poem by Aaron Fogel
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With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.

quote by Thomas Harrison
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Sexual morays,
the more's the merrier
textual forays

haiku by Jonathan Robin
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

quote by David Foster Wallace
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By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

quote by Norman McLaren
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I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

quote by Barbara Kruger
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When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

quote by Juan Goytisolo
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For children’s shake

Visual infidelity is not uncommon.
Textual infidelity is not uncommon.
Marital stability has not been shaken.

Corporal infidelity has come to stay.
Marital relation must cope with that
To keep the cradle safe for children’s sake.
27.06.2010.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

quote by Alexander Kluge
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Can This Be Love?

There is something in the way
that you look at me,
something in the way
that your eyes sometimes
shift away and back to mine again.

There is something
tn the inter-textual things
that is hidden between your words
when feelings are betrayed

in the subtle way that you let
the stresses fall
and there is nothing obscure
or superficial in the way
that you speak with me.

A sudden joy fills my heart
when I hear your voice,
when I look at you

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poem by Gert Strydom
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