Memory's Morning

A musical phrase a dream image the absence of a lover fragments of conversation with friends an atrocity the fragility and infinite mutability of words . . . each of the 71 poems in this collection proliferates around its transient nucleus. Like cells in a body they are dynamic repositories of the past sites for the breakdown and synthesis of experience receptors and translators of self-generated and external messages. The immediate setting of the poems is Europe a continent of many languages whose borders can be porous or impenetrable depending on who wants to cross them. A truly heterogeneous space whose land- and mindscapes remain deeply scarred - but also nourished - by the events and concepts of not only the twentieth century.Although the poems in this book written over a period of four years are distinguished by annually changing forms they have been arranged not chronologically but calendrically.