On Effacement "Elemental and unsparing, quiet and startling, Arnold's supple syntax is a source of gravity and vertigo. It is an acute expression of a mind's awareness of the tragedy of effacement: in burning through it, we gain a keener sense of our predicament."--John Palattella, The Nation
On Civilization "The power of this work flows not from subject matter alone, but from the formal friction of the lines themselves...
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