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You don't get to blow the candles until the entire year is gone, and for "Admit Two" that year, that first year has passed, the last grain of sand has slipped through the narrow straits of the hourglass uterus, and here is where we flip it over, upside down again, seemingly to where it was last year at this exact same time. Only nothing is the same, this new beginning is truly new, the moment to reinvent oneself has come, the moment to have the cake and eat it too. Here we could say how proud and honored we are to have been joined by a truly great group of contributors, and by musing whether to say it we would actually say it, as we would at the same time feel the work, their work, spoke and continues to speak for itself. Still, what their response, your response, speaks of even more, or as eloquently about is what can/is/has to be done. But since this is supposed to be a party, a birthday party, it's considered bad form to discuss business, talk shop. Instead, presents should be pushed forth, and the rustle of wrapping paper should ensue. We thought long and hard about what we should bring to our one-year old. The choice somehow always tends to be between a toy and something practical. Children don't like practical things, but at this age they have no concept of what's practical to begin with, so between answers, which fulfill at least a single purpose, and questions, which might have many purposes but might as well have none, we have decided to present you with the latter.
Why should writers always tell the truth, especially when it is hard to tell, both to discern and utter?
What can we have by connecting to other people that we can't have by staying away from them?
What can be communicated by being alone?
Who takes responsibility for that which doesn't get said, both by accident and on purpose?
Who takes responsibility for that which doesn't get heard?
Can there exist a word with no meaning?
Can there exist a word with no purpose?
If the writer describes the world for other people, who describes the world for the writer?
Will we go blind in the world of images without words?
Which is the right language?
How many languages are there and how many is a writer required to use?
How to make understand those who don't want to understand, and how to understand them?
What is a word without a voice?
To whom does the word "book" belong?
To whom does the word "writer" belong?
To whom does the word belong?
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AdmitTwo, No. 7, September, 2005. & Art:
autocartography & abstract nudes by Jennifer VanBuren & Alex Nodopaka
- - - & Fiction:
by
M.H. Keough and Ian Barker "...I noticed sentences, and in one or two places, entire paragraphs, written about a guy working on his car; a guy who swore generously as he threw a spanner across the garage. What was I thinking when I wrote that? I wondered. And what the hell is a spanner? I cut the offending sentences from my work-in-progress, and forgot about it until I sat down to edit the next chapter and discovered more mystery sentences. Before deleting them, I gathered them into a separate file and read through the passages."
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Poetry:
three poems:
Raffaella Malaguti & Gabrielle Provaas
"I was born a monkey so my year will start soon, & - - -
Poetry:
two from Texas: by B.A. Pierce & J.A. Willson
"Pierce supplied the memories and the unaffected taste of West Texas charm. Willson merely arranged and polished them. "Poetizing" the words as he says, dressing them up for their first trip to the city."
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Essay:
On the Impotence of Small Presses or The Need for Literary Terrorism b by Natalija Grgorinic & Ognjen Raden
"...there is but one fraction of the
entrepreneurial activity involved in presenting and promoting actual
literature. They call themselves small presses, more out of mimicry than
out of modesty. Low expectations are easy to meet and easier not to miss
if not met. They hold the one and only channel of communication between
the author and his/her public, which, if you once again consider they
call themselves small, is not a particularly big deal. They are also independent,
meaning they are open to any serious offer of a takeover; they are alternative
too, meaning they copy that which they want to become, and as small as
they are they all want to get bigger. Guilty they are too of a number of
great feats, but mostly innocent of anything that wouldn’t resemble
imitation. And successful imitation is the foundation of any surviving business, is
it not?
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