Understory
by Robin Becker • from American Poetry Review
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Robin Becker
Robin Becker's books include Domain of Perfect Affection (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006); The Horse Fair (2000); and All-American Girl (1996).
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"Not-singing bears little or no relation to singing; not-dancing bears little or no relation to dancing—or so I say as an outsider. But by contrast there are a great many modes, or states, of not-writing that are closely bound to—are indeed, as philosophers might say, partially constitutive of writing. And this has everything to do with the question "what is writing?" For one thing, it makes the question vexing. For if writing is not defined as the putting of words to a surface, then what is it?"
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