After noting that the recording being discussed comes from a 2007 Close Listening program, Filreis' Jacket2 blog post announcing the new episode observes that "It requires close listening indeed, and a somewhat distinct encounter of seeing the poem as text." He continues, "Scalapino does have a remarkable talent for sounding out words she has put in quotation marks. Crucially, she sounds out linebreaks too: listen for the break between 'character' and 'night' in 'separation of character and / night.' After all, 'night exists at day — but is not the same night so / night is not-existing.'"
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