February 01, 2008

Book I have to read: just found out (via Lemon Hound) about Vanessa Place, a lawyer who wrote a 130-page book with only one sentence. Convergences of law and poetry are always good (her book is described as a novel, but I think when you're pushing the limits of grammar that much, you're writing poetry whether you mean to or not) but a convergence of law, poetry, and sentence is very exciting. I don't get the impression that the book is about law, but still. There are very few people, to my knowledge, who can practice law (meaningfully) and create art (relevantly). If she can do both, maybe I'm not insane to try.

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