Martin had agreed to do The Ends of the Earth and wanted a smaller book to ‘announce’ the bigger. ‘John Martin had just started his press, and Duncan had recommended my work to him, as had Ron Loewinsohn. 11 What immediately arrests the reader are the clear, everyday images, normally secret and visceral, which are raised to attention by the elegant word choices and the experimental spelling. But after all, this was only because each had something I recognized. Robert Duncan, whom I had gotten to know in Berkeley, had encouraged me greatly, and his unassimilated influence is all over these poems they also bear the mark of Olson, Creeley, and Levertov, each of whom had inspired me in person as they had in print. A number of the poems reify occasions from my first marriage, memories of 1957, ‘58 I could now use to discriminate with. ‘ The Gathering is strictly speaking an occasional book - Fred Wah (we’d been classmates at UBC) had taken an interest (somewhat at Robert Duncan’s instigation), published poems of mine in his magazine Sum, and now wanted a book. San Francisco: Exempli Gratia Press, 1986. Weymouth, England: Last Straw Press, 1984. It’s the Same Only Different / The Melancholy Owed Categories. The first, 28-page section of issue number 13 of The Falcon. Mansfield, Pennsylvania: Mansfield State College Press, 1976. Cotati, California: Open Reading Books, 1976. Living in Advance (with Gifford, DeBarros et al). Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. Vancouver, British Columbia: Talonbooks, 1975. Tight Corners & What’s Around Them (Being the Brief & Endless Adventures of some Pronouns in the Sentences of 1972-1973).
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Toronto, Ontario: Coachhouse Press, 1974. Vancouver, British Columbia: New Star Press, 1974. Ten Years in the Making, Selected Poems, Songs & Stories, 1961–1970. 15 pp., 300 copies Illustrated by Sherril Jaffe. Click on the button to go to the annotated entry: