Tangere

tangents, lists, intensities, and other essential disorientations

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I’m rather against professionalism—(I only wish I could type better—) and really often think I would have preferred the days when poems just got handed around among friends.
Elizabeth Bishop in a letter to Pearl Kazin, 1953 (from Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. Ed. by Joelle Biele. New York: FSG, 2011. vii-viii)