What makes the digital humanities a dynamic field of research? What makes the digital humanities at all? This �blessay��a cross between an essay and blog post�works to answer these questions by wading into Johanna Drucker�s statement �reception history is production history,� as presented at Princeton University Library�s conference �Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines & Digital Archives� in October 2013. The author looks to her own life, the poet George Oppen, and Drucker�s poetic contemporary Lyn Hejinian for foundation in such dynamism.