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I just finished the audio book for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. What a book! I’ve listened to several of Stephen Graham Jones’ audiobooks and I always love his writing/reading of the acknowledgments at the end. In the one for this book, he thanks many writers who inspired him, including the poet Paisley Rekdal and her description of sitting on a rise outside of Laramie and watching the big rigs slide around on 80 in the winter. He says that he’s used that scene in two of his books, that it has somehow stuck with him, and then this, about Rekdal:
That’s what poets can do with language, isn’t it — use it like a stamp, to press things into our souls.
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In the midst of listening to the last few hours of Jones’ audiobook, I worked on my holes project. I finished the word-blooms and created the shadowy, blurry web of the amsler grid for hole 3 — which I think I should call hole 2 because the original hole 2 has been scraped and hole 3 is the unhinged twin to hole 1.
Here’s how it looks as of today:
I really like the effect of these threads and the verses of the poem. I’m thinking of outlining the words in the 4th poem, in panel 2, in orange for the next version of this.