Griffins, Amoebae, and Mandarin Ants: poems from an inner asylum

The theory that drives the poetry in this volume is that poems are descriptions of the various levels of the geological architecture of the mind.
Ordinary language skims off the tops of the highest, most accessible parts of this geology.
One can think of the mind in terms of the geology of the Grand Canyon. Poets can live at any level of this geology. However, the deep levels are where we find the lands of dreams and randomly linked symbols in an architecture constructed without the rhymes an...