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Sharp sand is also known as builder’s sand. It has sharp, unweathered edges that make it gritty & appropriate for mixing concrete. Sharp sand is also used as a soil amendment: it makes tight soils looser & gets a lot of use in bonsai cultivation. The same substance, sharp sand, has opposite effects depending on the application: one more amazing fact about the world & perhaps an appropriate emblem for something as coarse & loose as a poet’s weblog. The picture of sand in waves at the top of the main page of the blog is from this Polish technical institute’s wonderful collection of photographs of natural physical phenomena in everyday life.
Joseph Duemer is Professor of Humanities at Clarkson University in northern New York. He is a poet and the poetry editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal. His own most recent book is Magical Thinking (2001). He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2000 – 2001 he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Hanoi, Vietnam. All of the opinions expressed on this weblog are those of the author or commenters & do not reflect the views of any institution, employer, or publisher with whom the author might be affiliated.
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