Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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somnambular

Melville knew the sea, its poising and somnambulism

—p.73 by Muriel Rukeyser
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fronds

All along her edges, just where she turned to another state. Tidepools full of slow blinks and bubbles and little waving fronds. The self, but more, like a sponge. But thirsty.

—p.128 by Patricia Lockwood
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ekphrasis

Visual art and artists are everywhere in your work. Where did the interest in ekphrasis begin?

—p.91 The Art of Poetry No. 110 (72) missing author
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paratactic

The thought movement is, because of the lack of punctuation, fundamentally paratactic; the grammatical structure puts thoughts and events that in ordinary writing are usually organized hierarchically instead on the same plane, creating unexpected connections.

—p.189 by Matthew Zapruder
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elegiac

THE TONE OF THE VIXEN IS ELEGIAC, MYSTERIOUS, HISTORICAL

—p.187 by Matthew Zapruder
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