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Ander Monson

Ander Monson is the author of five books, most recently Vanishing Point (Graywolf, 2010) and The Available World (Sarabande, 2010); a Web site; a decoder wheel; two chapbooks; and other paraphernalia. The editor of the magazine DIAGRAM (thediagram.com) and of the New Michigan Press, he lives in Tucson and teaches at the University of Arizona.

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Dear Future Lover

Here’s a relic for the reliquary. Another artifact of the past. Go ahead, take it, collect it, chuck it: it no longer serves its former function. I find them still with regularity in academic libraries, in the science and engineering…
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The Uses of Biography

    If, as was axiomatic in romantic theory, the potter left his thumbprints on the vase, then a knowledge of his life, his personality, and the conditions of the age that affected them could help define the special qualities…
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Facing the Monolith

It’s submerged in nearly every sentence, diphthong without which it’s hard to go for long (ask the Oulipo). It, a tic, a blip, a spear to pierce the Good Year blimp, an exclamation point without a dot, you can’t avoid…