[In memoriam, Ian Tyson (1933–2021), painter, printmaker, sculptor, and extraordinary book artist, who was my dear friend and frequent collaborator over a half-century and more. (j.r.)]
I have tried an altenstil / & dropped it. — J.R., A Book of Witness, 2003
N.B. As a master of the multivolume long poem, one of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s motifs, she tells us, is “making a commentary in a poem that glosses key modernist texts in suspicion and homage.”
Poems and poetics