Null Set
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Special Collections / Author Archives › Paul Grant Collection
ISBN: 1566894034 / Publisher: Coffee House Press, June 2015
Cool lyric surfaces rupture unexpectedly, allowing in the warmth of intimacy, fatherhood, and spiritual hunger.
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Null Set collects the slightly obsessive possibilities that rise when we give them the space—odd jobs, trouble-making, and farm boy rambling, all in dialogue with mathematics, or William Faulkner, or other poets.From "Hypotenuse":HYPOTENUSEI write three, erase it, blow rubbershavings from the desk. Write its notation,erase it, blow shavings. Then three 3serased, shavings blown, persistfor the nonce, three of nothing, nowhereattending to discrete objects for counting,themselves objects at any rate. To kiss,sleep, and focus we know to closeour eyes, imagine. I do, see nothing.
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