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Notes
These x-stitch tokens were sharply inspired
by moments in which intellectual and social pleasures coincided: time spent
with Rita Raley in Scotland and reading her essay "Reveal Codes;" and a dynamic
conference on diasporic avant-gardes in which i perceived the formal qualities
of diaspora subjectivity, my own included. Both pieces are invented as they
are created and have been sent to their respective dedicatees, to complete
the cycle of social and intellectual/creative net-working. They
are about friendship in cultural work.
Bio
Maria Damon teaches poetry and
poetics at the University of Minnesota. She
is the author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins
in Vanguard American Poety, and co-author (with Betsy Franco) of The
Secret Life of Words and
(with mIEKAL aND) of Literature
Nation, E.n.t.r.a.n.c.e.d, and pleasureTEXTpossession.
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