Rereading Anne Carson. I feel like I carried her so much with me for so long that I had to put her aside briefly—but returning to her. Returning to Decreation, which I only read the whole way through once. It’s such a pleasure.

Trying today to find the elusive David Gewanter. We said something about 1.30, but 1.30 and no Gewanter. Tried again an hour later—still no Gewanter. Maybe we’ll sit down to look at some of my poems tomorrow instead.

Have found a few art openings on over the weekend. Hopefully I will pop in to one or two of them.

Started thinking about Louise Brooks again this morning. Have been reading her essays, Lulu in Hollywood. I want to know if she wrote anything else. (I do plan to get a biography of her too.) It's such a shame that she destroyed the book she worked on for so long, Naked on my Goat - based on these pieces, it would have been well worth reading. I want to find the films of hers I haven't seen...