Seven Notebooks

An ant to the stars

or stars to the ant—which is

more irrelevant?

Weekend Jet Skiers—

rude to call them idiots,

yes, but facts are facts.

Clamor of seabirds

as the sun falls—I look up

and ten years have passed."

—from "Dawn Notebook"

Such is the expansive terrain of Seven Notebooks: the world as it is seen, known, imagined, and dreamed; our lives as they are felt, thought, desired, and lived. Written in forms that range from haiku to prose, and in a voice that veers from incanta­tory to deadpa...