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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Secretary of Foreign Relations</title><link rel="self" href="https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/"/><generator uri="http://pollenpub.com/">Pollen (custom feed)</generator><id>https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/</id><updated>2020-07-03T11:11:19-05:00</updated><author><name>Joel Dueck</name><email>&#106;&#111;&#101;&#108;&#64;&#106;&#100;&#117;&#101;&#99;&#107;&#46;&#110;&#101;&#116;</email></author><entry><author><name>Joel Dueck</name></author><published>2016-02-20T00:00:00-06:00</published><updated>2016-02-20T00:00:00-06:00</updated><title type="text">The Unbearable Lightness of Web Pages</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/web-books.html"/><id>https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/web-books.html</id><summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Web pages are ghosts: they’re like images projected onto a wall. They aren’t durable. Contrast this with hard-copies—things written on paper or printed in books. We can still read books and pamphlets printed five hundred years ago, even though the presses that made them have long since been destroyed. How can we give the average independent web writer that kind of permanence?</p><p><a href="https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/web-books.html">Click here to read <i>The Unbearable Lightness of Web Pages</i></a></p>]]></summary></entry><entry><author><name>Joel Dueck</name></author><published>2016-01-04T00:00:00-06:00</published><updated>2016-01-04T00:00:00-06:00</updated><title type="text">Colophon</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/colophon.html"/><id>https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/colophon.html</id><summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>(No summary given)</p><p><a href="https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/colophon.html">Click here to read <i>Colophon</i></a></p>]]></summary></entry><entry><author><name>J. Brander Matthews</name></author><published>2015-09-20T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2015-09-20T00:00:00-05:00</updated><title type="text">En Route</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/04-en-route.html"/><id>https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/04-en-route.html</id><summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Rail travel of the 1870s in chain verse.</p><p><a href="https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/04-en-route.html">Click here to read <i>En Route</i></a></p>]]></summary></entry><entry><author><name>Susanna Clarke</name></author><published>2015-08-26T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2015-08-26T00:00:00-05:00</updated><title type="text">English Magick</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/03-strange.html"/><id>https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/03-strange.html</id><summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Could the spells in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell be poetry?</p><p><a href="https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/03-strange.html">Click here to read <i>English Magick</i></a></p>]]></summary></entry><entry><author><name>Richard Wilbur</name></author><published>2015-08-25T12:30:00-05:00</published><updated>2015-08-25T12:30:00-05:00</updated><title type="text">Two Voices in a Meadow</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/02-milkweed.html"/><id>https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/02-milkweed.html</id><summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A pair of poems in very different voices.</p><p><a href="https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/02-milkweed.html">Click here to read <i>Two Voices in a Meadow</i></a></p>]]></summary></entry><entry><author><name>Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman</name></author><published>2015-08-25T08:29:00-05:00</published><updated>2015-08-25T08:29:00-05:00</updated><title type="text">Homes</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/01-homes.html"/><id>https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/01-homes.html</id><summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A sestina in mock-praise of domesticity</p><p><a href="https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/01-homes.html">Click here to read <i>Homes</i></a></p>]]></summary></entry></feed>