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and language to create an experiential portrait of narrative's power to both disfigure and restore

in the sense in which Pound’s Cantos is a poem

Writing along the edge

And yet throughout he remains alert to the flashes of humanity that light up the wasteland of war

Movies are the magical invocations to a changed and better life

Aug 9—Fog Christian Hawkey and language to create anKathryn Scanlan Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy, an eighty six year old woman living in a small Illinois town, from 1968 to 1972. Scanlan began to compulsively read and reread the strangers diary. In the years following she edited, arranged, and rearranged the diarists words into the composition that is Aug 9 Fog. In Kathryn Scanlans Aug 9 Fog, a notebook deteriorates beneath a