Ander Monson is the author of, most recently, the forthcoming book in a box, Letter to a Future Lover, short essays on 6"x9" cards, including these two, written in and on libraries and things found in libraries, and published back into the spaces where they originated, and collected afterward, unordered, into a box which he supposes is a book, since it is after all bound and collected there. He mourns the disappearance of long and seemingly boundless sentences, the sort you might hear on amateur radio, late at night, the signal attenuating into static under some combination of snow and moonlight.