Poetry. "I never set out to write a poem. I will jot things down in my notebook, sometimes ideational, sometimes not, sometimes picked up from the environment, or misheard, or from a dream, and occasionally a phrase will have a rhythmic urgency that compels me to jot something further, and then I'm lost in process and have no idea where I or the poem is going. This is a liminal state fraught with both joy and terror, and it is processual. The process may extend over a few or many lines and take a few moments or days and months. It lasts until one emerges at the other end, back into the everyday, arrival signaled by the loss of urgency"—from the author's Afterword.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Mark Weiss is an art dealer, quondam film maker, psychotherapist and social worker, teacher, editor and publisher. He has recently edited two major anthologies of Latin American literature, one from Baja California, and one of the poetry of Cuba. He is the publisher of Junction Press, and he lives in New York City.

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