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Clouds, Mountains, Birds, Different Ways of Speaking. Things That Matter, and Things That Do Not Matter. Things Found in a Local Grocery Store. Things Found in The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. Billboards, Clouds. One Week in April. Beautiful Things. Fires. These are some of the lists, poems, prose poems, improvisations, and lyric anecdotes compiled in The Logan Notebooks. A remix and a reimagining of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, Rebecca Lindenberg’s second collection is an intimate and imaginative series of observations about place—a real place, an interior landscape—at the intersection of the human with the world, and the language we have (and sometimes do not have) for perceiving it. From this idiosyncratic montage of notes and moments of attention, characters, a place, a culture and a life emerge in all their absurdity, sadness, elation, complexity, and wonder. Like any notebook, The Logan Notebooks finds itself in the space between the private and public, the interior and |