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and her poetry treads new ground between humanity

desertification to prophecy

Who told poets they were supposed to think

Aug 9—Fog Rainer Maria Rilke and Michael Wachtel)Kathryn Scanlan Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy, an eighty six year old woman living in a small Illinois town, from 1968 to 1972. Scanlan began to compulsively read and reread the strangers diary. In the years following she edited, arranged, and rearranged the diarists words into the composition that is Aug 9 Fog. In Kathryn Scanlans Aug 9 Fog, a notebook deteriorates beneath a