Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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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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salutary

Reading poetry has the salutary effect on me of forcing me to read, and think, at a different pace than the rest of my life demands.

—p.24 by Matthew Zapruder
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penumbra

create a great penumbra of imagined difficulty and mystification throughout the whole poem

—p.22 by Matthew Zapruder
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