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IIJIMA

                                              February 14, 2007


Going over the table of
books for sale in the
backroom one more time,
I over hear a woman hold
up a small pamphlet, saying
"Isn't this pretty?" and the            Black print on a
man she's with responds                 metallic gold
"Uh... esthetically it doesn't          cover, cream-yellow
grab me."                               pages, many pages
                                        have justified lines.
I thought "But what are the
words like?" and picked it up:                          (with excessive
                                                         interword
   "Color and it's Antecedents"                          spacing.)
   by Brenda Iijima (2004)

   I flip through it, and get
   the sense that it *might*              "Color finds itself
   be about something.                     place in a poem and
                                           in being there
I bring it over to the woman               immediately becomes
running the table along with               antecedent and is
a couple of other things                   found to have antecedent
and she comments --                        relations within any
"Oh, this is one of mine."                 (every) poem."

  (I didn't know her by                        The lead quotation from
  appearence: she hadn't                       "Colour Mediations"
  read yet.)                                   by S.G.J. Ouseley

  I explain how I happened                     Perhaps unfortunately,
  to pick it up... she seemed                  it turns out that the
  nonplussed.                                  pamphelet is almost
                                               entirely quotations
                                               from other sources,
                                               strangely formatted
                                               and run together.

                                                  (There doesn't seem to
                                                  be any Goethe, which
                                                  seems a definite oversight.)

                                                  IN_CONTRAST

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