Clouds, leaves, waves. was published in 1996, by Turtle Point Press with a preface by Harold Bloom.
There have been poems written regularly since 1996, but unpublished.
This site will record them.
There is 'Desert Poem' a poem written after the experience teaching at Deep Springs College in 1995.
'Long Island' follows and becomes the beginning of 'Road Movie' in 1996.
'Florida Poem' was written in 1995 after a painting trip there for a month in March 1995.
There has been 'Road Movie' started in 1996 and the last finished editing was in 2000.
Then, 'All One, falling.' written in 2001 and edited to 2003.
Back 2 the StudiO, is from 2005-06.
The method has been to follow journals of daily ideas and of painting in the studio. In the transcribing of them a rhythm or voice was found and it continues to this day, evolving as it goes on.
The writer is a painter and has always been aware of the lack of expertise the poems have in relation to the expenditure of energy in painting. I am aware also of the difference in daily habit from my writing and a poet writing daily, being his or her life.
Again, I am a painter.
But this writing continues and I have rather naturally continued recording it and so here it is.
I reserve any judgement myself and as Harold Bloom said in his preface to Clouds, leaves, waves., "it is not meant to stand alone."
Of course this is a question that presents itself as time goes on, what exactly is it?
Without the internet it would be as a friend said, 'just put away in a draw.'
