What We Leave Behind

<p>In <em>What We Leave Behind</em> Peter Wortsman's fourth book of cut-ups he lets the words run wild in some cases as in French poet Guillaume Apollinaire's <em>Calligrames</em> (1918) letting words break ranks and dance on the page; in other cases coupling word and image; and finally succumbing to the lure of the visual in collages in which words play a subordinate role or disappear altogether. If as this book's first poem maintains we know each other from what we leave behind Wortsman writes I will hope these cut-up words and images bestir a smile or two on the face of the reader and perhaps a knowing nod.</p>