A Syntax of Contrariety (on Bruce Andrews)

published in Aerial 9 (1997): 234-38

In the journal he was keeping in the early 1970s, when he was still a graduate student at Harvard,  Bruce Andrews was already drawing up those word lists that have since become a signature and that would soon become full-fledged “poems.”   Here’s one:[1]
hem

pero

avveva

treble

beg

gyp

pow

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