[Recent work by Eliot Cardineax turns a new twist on Robert Duncan’s dictum: “I am not an experimentalist or an inventor, but a derivative poet, drawing my art from the resources given by a generation of masters.” In his derivations from Celan and Mandelstam, along with the author’s note attached thereto, Cardineaux’s poetry and poetics stands as a refutation, too, to Harold Bloom’s “anxiety of influence” as a necessary foundation for strong poets and strong poetry.