Filreis offers this encapsulation of the discussion's evolution in his write-up of this new episode on Jacket2, noting, "The group began with an improvised list of topics this poem urges us to confront." "One topic (taken up toward the end of the discussion)," he continues, "is the trope of the unsayable. The speaker has 'seen things no one can explain' — has had an experience but the poem will defer or show itself incapable of describing it. Then there's the problem of conscious and unconscious literariness: that which isn't explainable ... is a knowledge 'for which no lineage / Credentialed me.'" "Such arising from nowhere frees her to pass in and out of the living world," Filreis concludes.
