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Praise for Against the Sun

"...a quality of 'dreamlike' narrative...[which creates] a kind of space....a sensual quality of attention in which 'objectivity' occurs like pressure on objects."  --Leslie Scalapino

"...it's intricate and has worlds of breath and body in it!...lucid and electric!" --Rochelle Owens

"Rich in particulars, presences, and the open distinction of the fingerprint, i.e., the uniqueness of one's ineffable song." -- David Melzer

"...active grace and clarity." -- Robert Creeley


"...[the] freedom to glide between culture and different points of reference beguiled and intrigued...[these] have such a wide range of human possibilties in them"  -- Diane Wakoski

"...lovely and true -- no hype or performing ego but the eye of the poet (and the ear, too) attending, pleasuring in the lost detail of the world."  -- Kathleen Fraser


Praise for Night's Reading (new manuscript)

"a work of gorgeous eroticism as a celebration of the body in the process of escape." --Jerome Rothenberg



The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus

In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell