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She set out on a poetic research project, walking and writing with friends and strangers from the banks of the Mississippi River to the streets of Manhattan, Cambridge University, and a fjord in western Norway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way she walked with poets Sarah Fox, Fred Schmalz, Stephanie Anderson, Holly Corfield-Carr, Patrick Cabello Hansel, Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, Ru Puro, Brian Teare, Christy Davids, Ted Rees, Jared Stanley; playwright Deborah Stein; scholars David Hobbs, Maria Damon, and Tara Menon; family members; visual artists and curators; archivists; and others. 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It is perfect gemini anxiety\/flexibility and human strength, sitting with and passing through difficult fury and ugly love.\" —\u003cb\u003eFeng Sun Chen\u003c\/b\u003e, on ENDLESSNESS IS NO DESOLATION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a most ungrim grimoire. This is where to sit at a disaster.\" —\u003cb\u003eSharon Mesmer\u003c\/b\u003e, on ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Surprisingly universal and welcoming.\" —\u003cb\u003eJennifer L. Knox\u003c\/b\u003e, on ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Workman's artistic antennas are tuned to the civic mindfuck that characterizes our age. While we're both paralyzed and tantalized by the entanglement of fantasy and reality scripting our daily life, Workman's poetry seems at once to reflect the ethos of this world, while simultaneously rejecting it by making it entirely her own.\" —\u003cb\u003eJohn Ebersole\u003c\/b\u003e, on ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One can hear Breton's cry at the end of Nadja, 'Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or not at all.' 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