Retallack on Bruce Andrews' Praxis
 

Praxis "is a beautiful experimental model of shifting semantic patterns among elegantly placed liguistic untis, demonstrating how playful and inventive the mind can be when presented with comparatively minimal cues."
 
Praxis reads like "the Heraclitean stream full force [...] It moves on with or without us, both changing and the same; and we as readers are in praxis [...] identifying clusters that seem to cohere, trying out alignments and realignments, letting go"
 
"the effect of Praxis is most refreshing when you let it wash over you, beginning to end, again and again--preferably reading aloud, allowing the semantic patterns to shift 'on their own.' They will do this because the surface plasure, the surface tension, in Andrews' arrangement is strong enough to entice the brain into its speciality--making connections."
 
"It is a reminder that we are always interpreting."

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