What We Leave Behind

By Peter Wortsman

In What We Leave Behind, Peter Wortsman's fourth book of cut-ups, he lets the words run wild, in some cases, as in French poet Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligrames (1918), letting words break ranks and dance on the page; in other cases, coupling word and image; and finally, succumbing to the lure of the visual in collages in which words play a subordinate role or disappear altogether. If, as this book's first poem maintains, "we know each other from what we leave behind," Wortsman writes, "I will hope these cut-up words and images bestir a smile or two on the face of the reader and perhaps a knowing nod."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1962316211
• ISBN13: 9781962316217
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Bamboo Dart Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.5" x 6.5"