"This is an immense book, one in which Notley takes language, as she has it, 'from hearsay to heresy' by the speed and awe of an unwavering attention to the seams, seems and semes of words and sentences. This is the work of an iconoclast, a semioclast, where semantics become semeantics, and the byzantics and antiques from Christianity to Christine are molten down & recast into 21st Century mental shapes in the redhot heartred retort of a present day...
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