Poetry. Art. In 1996, artist Alan Halsey gave his friend, poet Kelvin Corcoran, a set of fourteen pictures. Between 1997 and 2001, Corcoran wrote poems for each of the pictures. YOUR THINKING TRACTS OR NATIONS comprises the poems and the pictures, offering an examination of friendship and collaboration. "Alan, here are fourteen versions/of your thinking tracts or nations,/bright in deep border country/fourteen visions of your gift"-(from "Picture Fourteen"). Alan Halsey's most recent books are DANTE'S BARBERSHOP and WITTGENSTEIN'S DEVIL. Recent collaborations are FIT TO PRINT with Karen Mac Cormack and Days of '49 with Gavin Selerie. WHEN SUZY WAS is the most recent of Kelvin Corcoran's books available from SPD.