Response to Mallarme

Manet's portrait of Stephane Mallarme, 1876

For your brief assignment next week, please read Stephane Mallarme's essayistic poem (or perhaps poetic essay) and respond in your own creative literary fashion. You might choose to write it as a poem or as a memory or as a manifesto or as a story or as a conceptual piece or as something hard to classify. Your writing must be no longer than one side of one sheet of paper (typing preferred). We will share these in class next week. I'm looking forward to it.
Here is a link to Mallarme's essay: "The Book: A Spiritual Instrument". You do not need to refer to Mallarme's essay in your writing and you do not have to use any other sources. You are free, however, to do both if by doing so fits the logic of your piece.