TEACHINGS OF A JADE RAZER. (ORIGINAL POEMS)

This is a collection of poems in rebellion against all things: square buildings, the annual rings of trees, the Midas muffler man for perverting a myth, the primrose path for not being irresistible, cement trucks for their trivialization of the potter's wheel. As for aesthetics, these poems are generically "anti." Such a creed, as is the nature of such things, barks, but barking is only a surface diversion, the necessary afflatus for the attention the animal wants. The real business of these artifacts is to play. They are a game. Images, with their baggage of meaning, try to provoke the desire to find a gestalt. And if there is meaning--and does not every human endeavor get its meaning from the process of our searching for it?--it arises in that interstice between the word on the page and the mind that recreates the poem by reading it.