Aug 9—FogKathryn 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

incoherences

part lament ("softly the sound of woe / gallops")

Its languages (English

love and loss

and learn working class histories along the way

“It matters to me

paintings and tapestries—but the text also demands attention and it is what allows or coaxes the viewer to linger

nature writing and 20th Century literary figures with agility

the formal invention of this poetry occasionally seems powered by a veritable dynamo of masochism

And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again

Thomas Möhlmann

gender and sexuality