"this squat package of sounds"

Ashbery, Etter, Dahle, Atkins, Young, Melville

John Ashbery:

Dave Etter:

Gro Dahle (tr. from Norwegian by May-Brit Akerholt):

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Russell Atkins:

Dean Young:

Herman Melville, re Ralph Waldo Emerson:

“Stuff,” I.e., as in “stuff and nonsense.”

Tampa Red, “You Can’t Get That Stuff No More,” rec. 1932:

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