This is good news, my book of poems came out in December and is available through Small Press Distribution. Here's the link
http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780985977306/a-tale-of-two-heads.aspx?rf=1 if you want to get one. It's published by
IFSF, which is a local small publishing company run by Brooks Roddan. Design, including the beautiful cover, is by Eda Goksel. I wrote about 5 different introductions to it, none of which we used, but it was an interesting exercise in trying to describe what the poems 'are about'. I'm completely torn between wanting to dilate and wanting to present the poems intact, without explication. If I do the latter there is a sense of standing behind the material as being complete in itself, which is the hero's path I think. But being a hero is hard work, especially when your natural inclination is to analyze the hell out of books. Plus, my introductions flew off into all sorts of exotic locations I've never quite visited before, not on this site anyway. I think I will dig them up and put them in another post. I'll post a poem here instead. Actually I will post the first poem, which begins with the word
if, and the last, which ends with the word
redeemed. They frame the question pretty well I think. The book is definitely more of a question than an answer - but it's written like a straightforward answer to a vexing, because forgotten, question. This is what happens when I start to write about my book.
The Desert
If the desert was the dream of wolves,
the language of rocks, the ear
of the wind rimed with salt,
the taste of blood, the desiccated beehive
and inverted beehive pueblos,
it was also the end of distinctions
like
dead or alive and therefore
poetic.
Lady Macbeth
In my dream I redeem you
on account of my deep understanding of your name.
Lucifer is a bright translucent type
of red, a type of red
flower, Lucifer
is a flower
which seeks the nitroglycerin of my desire
and sucks on it -
but I give suck, like
Lady Macbeth, redeemed.
