As Landscape

By Mark Weiss

"I never set out to write a poem. I will jot things down in my notebook, sometimes ideational, sometimes not, sometimes picked up from the environment, or misheard, or from a dream, and occasionally a phrase will have a rhythmic urgency that compels me to jot something further, and then I'm lost in process and have no idea where I or the poem is going. This is a liminal state fraught with both joy and terror, and it is processual. The process may extend over a few or many lines and take a few moments or days and months. It lasts until one emerges at the other end, back into the everyday, arrival signaled by the loss of urgency"from the author's Afterword.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0925904767
• ISBN13: 9780925904768
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Chax Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Age Range: 16 years and up