Poetry. A sequence of poems by poet and scholar David Ball, whose poems have previously appeared in fugitive editions from a.o. and Burning Deck. He is also our major translator of the works of French poet Henri Michaux (Darkness Moves, University of California Press). In the Sixties, Ball and Ron Padgett co-edited the Paris-based poetry magazine Blue Pig, one of the first publications to feature the work of Tom Raworth. The cities of these poems are Paris and New York, seen in a darkly humorous light: "The past is present. But the past is gone. / The present flutters / in the little squares. / A phone rings, muffled / by time perhaps, like the people moving / through pictures on the dark walls."