Poetry. This short sequence makes use of fifteen single-syllable words: firm, for, form, free, from, in, is, it, of, our, than, that, the, then, this. These words are ordered and clustered variously as means to explore their rhythmic and sound properties. The text is also an attempt to wrestle with sense when the language field is moderately constrained. Go ahead and judge this book in the unadvised manner—the entire text appears, in miniature, on the cover.

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Born in Los Angeles, Gale Nelson has lived in Providence since the 1980s. He has taught at Trinity Repertory Conservatory and Brown University, where he is Assistant Director of the Department of Literary Arts. Gale Nelson is the author of THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TALK ENDS, CERTERIS PARIBUS, and STARE DECISIS as well as of a number of chapbooks. He is represented in the anthology 49+1: Nouveaux Poètes Américains, and two of this plays, "Disciplining the Dimes" and "The Undiapered Filefish," are included in The Joy of Phonetics and Accents by Louis Colaianni. He is also the editor of paradigm press.