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Florence Penny finds the term aesthetic animism to be "robust and revelatory in application, enabling subtle connections that go beyond the scope of digital poetry", although she writes that the book is uneven: "when it is good it is very, very good, and when it is not, it is unreliable." Heckman appears to see this unevenness more as a feature than a flaw: "The claims it advances are not ironclad decrees, but rather seeds scattered in the wind". Scott
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