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So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that we find exceptionally suggestive, apposite, or musical - are usually adjudged to be 'poetic'. . . . The work of the poet is to contribute a text that will firstly invite such a reading; and secondly reward such a reading.

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. . . as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else. " -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

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If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom. " -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

America, Free, Judy, New Orleans, Orleans, People

Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana. . . You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat things you'd probably hire an exterminator to get out of your yard. We dance even if there's no radio. We drink at funerals. We talk too much and laugh too loud and live too large and, frankly,we're suspicious of others who don't.

Dear, Drink, Funny, Humorous, Suspicious, Usa

The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else.

Become, Live, Longer, New Orleans, Orleans, Unfit

I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words and to try is to roll down a road of clichés, bouncing over beignets and beads and brass bands and it just is what it is. It is home.

Brass Bands, Home, Land, Louisiana, Roll, Tolerance

we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

Frankly, Funeral, Funerals, Laugh, Laughing, New Orleans
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