Excerpts from
T H E _ 6 0 s _ A N D _ 7 0 s : FROM "THE THEORY OF SUBJECTIVITY IN MOBY DICK"
By Deborah Meadows 2003  $10
Design by Stuart Henley

from Chapter 79

No face.
---------------------------like Shakespeare's
face-reading.
---------------------------"every other human science,
------------------is but a passing fable."

------------------Novel, by size,
affixed by nothing but riddles.
------------------Riddles, note, derive from gardening,
------------------an external reminder.

Deborah Meadows teaches at Cal-Poly Pomona. She is author of forthcoming books of poems from Green Integer and Krupskaya. Her reviews have appeared in how2 and Jacket among other places.

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