EDITOR'S NOTE:
BENJAMIN MITROFAN-NORRIS:
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editing Stan's poems was a really enjoyable
experience, and didn't really feel like hard
work. However, I did spend a lot of time trying
to bring some space and breathing room into
the pieces, as the original material was
incredibly dense and hallucinogenic. For me,
this kind of dark, nightmarish poetry works
best when we have some blank air between
the sets of images, to intensify each image
when it returns. In order to do this,