Aug 9—Fog Rainer Maria Rilke desertification to prophecy

desertification to prophecy

and her poetry treads new ground between humanity

and Michael Wachtel)

part antipolitical manifesto ("the war is too close / for revolution to be understood")

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Aug 9—Fog Rainer Maria Rilke desertification to prophecyKathryn Scanlan Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy, an eighty six year old woman living in a small Illinois town, from 1968 to 1972. Scanlan began to compulsively read and reread the strangers diary. In the years following she edited, arranged, and rearranged the diarists words into the composition that is Aug 9 Fog. In Kathryn Scanlans Aug 9 Fog, a notebook deteriorates beneath a