by hand

The next piece is an essay by Robert Grenier, handwritten. I love handwriting in publications. It is not that easy to decipher – I’m going to have to print it out and make notes. I lose the drift of the sentences trying to decipher words. It is so expressive though, and so natural, so organic, so close to the hand.

I feel hesitant to quote anything from this essay because I would be doing violence to the words by rendering them in typeface.

You can probably guess how I feel about Emily Dickinson’s poetry. It should be read in the original. I saw a facsimile edition once. Wow.