Before Leaving the Island

Before you leave your own island, be sure to explore John Fadely's. Along the shore, your signals are jammed with true hyperbole, as in every good poem's interference against the usual. Below the ground, you interrogate the poem exactly as you read it. Navigate the shoals in order to find scraps of wisdom not from but for Confucius. The notes map the journey you've taken along with Marianne Moore, Jack Kerouac, Gustave Caillebotte, Khalil Gibran, and Shakespeare's 29th sonnet where he and w...