June 2007
A Note on the Poems
The pieces gathered here were made in 1996 under the influence, particularly, of John Ashbery's The Tennis Court Oath, Kenneth Rexroth's early poems (such as "Into the Shandy Westerness" and "Easy Lessons in Geography") Rexroth's translations of Pierre Reverdy, Joseph Ceravolo's selected poems, whatever I was able to get my hands on by Tristan Tzara, and a poetics perhaps best summed up by the editors of Dirigible as “a phenomenological lyricism which recreates the texture and logic of interior experience.”
