Introverse

Introverse is a selection of poems from more than a dozen volumes that I wrote throughout the nineties and naughties. In choosing the poems for this purpose I have abandoned chronology but I have otherwise attempted to represent my various phases and foci, and to create a more or less coherent overview of my poetry.

Regardless of authorial intent, I believe that poetry should speak for itself. Unlike words in a story (which usually serve a narrative cause), the words in a written poem are relatively free agents. The arrangement of these words, with respect to each other and in relation to the page, is all that there is, and, in my opinion, all that there needs to be.

I hope that these poems speak to you.