Shall i disappoint my thousands of loyal fans, whose support means so much to me (emotionally as well as financially); or shall i follow my bliss, strange though it be, into nether catacombs of obscurity? The answer is a given. There was never really any choice, was there?


15 books important to my development as a poet (See also: my list of Essential Titles)

• 100 Poems from the Japanese
• Poets in a Landscape
• Approximate Man (Tzara)
• The New American Poetry
• Paradise Lost
• Beyond Language (Borgmann)
• Collected Poems of W. H. Auden
• Berryman's Sonnets, & Dream Songs
• Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath
• a bilingual anthology of Modern French Poetry (Hackett?)
• Celan's Speech-Grille and Selected Poems (tr Neugroschel)
• Roan Stallion and Other Poems
• Bly's Neruda and Vallejo
• The Eighteen Nineties (Holbrook Jackson)
• Green Armor on Green Ground (Rolfe Humphries)

also (small press) • NRG, & the publications of Xerox Sutra Editions (small press)


Thousand-hand Guanyin--performed by deaf dancers (thanx Jill!).

Downtown (in German).

Bilingual Lojban-English blog.