The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader, edited by Lucy Ives. Los Angeles: Siglio Press 2020. 327, [1] pp.

EVERYTHING I RECEIVE WILL BECOME PART OF A NOVEL
An Introduction to the Work of Madeline Gins by Lucy Ives
10

Transformatory Power: Poems from the 1960s and ’70s
[38]

Poet: To Duchamp	40
1. _____________ Went	41
Ode to This.	42
A priori to you	43
It was as if	44
THE GEOMETRICAL PUSH	47
SWIMMING PLACES	48
WITHOUT TITLE	49
GHOSTING	50
UNMENTIONABLE OPERATION	51
To Arakawa	52
PART	53
PLOTTING OF COURSE	54
RETRACTABLE	55
All composing lies here	56
TO FRANCIS PONGE	57
How do I love Thee	58
Pools, Lusions and Races (A Curing Curve)	59

Two Early Essays
[68]

THE FICTIONS OF MY NON-FICTION	70
Arakawa’s Painting, Diagram of Part of the Imagination: A Non-Fictional Working Out of Fictions (1963-64)	74

WORD RAIN
(or A Discursive Introduction
to the Intimate Philosophical Investigations
of G,R,E,T,A, G,A,R,B,O, It Says)
78

Selections from What the President Will Say and Do!!
[214]

Preface	216
What the President Will Say and Do!!	217
The Leader I.	254
The Leader II.	261
All Men Are Sisters (including
A Sisterly Thesaural Dictionary)	264
A Sisterly Thesaural Dictionary	267-303
How to Breathe	274
Brief Autobiography of a Non-Existent	287

Selections from Helen Keller or Arakawa
[304]

I: Thinking Field	306
II: “Perception Has Got to Have a Body!”	312
III: The First Little Brick of Substance	318
Sources	325
Index to titles of Arakawa's works	327

[Editor's Acknowledgments]

Contents of Word Rain

Front matter: title pages, pictures, architectural diagram	78-86
1. The Waterfall or An Introduction	87
2. The Introduction of the Waft or Paraphrased Sensibility	97
3.   A. Reading in the Rain or The Multiplication of Consciousness	111
B. More or Later	127
4. The Body of Letters or The Motion of Words	137
5. Fog in the Tunnel or Intruding Words	143
6. A Type of Rainbow or By Order of Words	151
7. Dust Storm or The Pulverization of the Metaphor	161
8. Lightning or The Wording of the Reader	169
9.   A. Mist and Flood Evasporating Endings	191
B. Condensation The Reader and the Weather	205