The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
- Wallace Stevens, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
This morning I'm thinking about the volume with which I promote all this engagement work, personal engagement, community engagement, all that. I've almost finished writing four manuscripts this summer, each of which is waiting to be published. I guess the volume we need will make itself known.
